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SINGAPORE \u2013 A man was taken to task over his role in a ruse to cheat GrabTaxi Holdings\u00a0into paying for delivery jobs that were not done, from which he obtained more than $18,000.<\/p>\n
On May 21, Alex Wang Xiang Yi, 30, was sentenced to 13 months and 16 weeks in jail.<\/p>\n
He pleaded guilty to 14 charges, including multiple cheating charges and unrelated charges under the Road Traffic Act. Wang will also be disqualified from driving for two years from the date of his release.<\/p>\n
Wang was among four men charged on Nov 28, 2025, over cheating the company, causing it to incur more than $58,000 in losses,\u00a0the police said in November 2025<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n The court heard that 5,540 fraudulent transactions were made.<\/p>\n Wang is the third man to be jailed for his role in the ruse. In March, Dzulqarnain\u00a0Muhamad, 35, was sentenced to seven months\u2019 jail<\/span><\/a>. In April, Loh Jing Jie, 33, was given 10 weeks\u2019 jail.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n The case involving the fourth man, Lee Yong Ze, is still before the courts.<\/p>\n According to court documents, five Grab drivers were involved in the ruse, but the fifth person was not charged on Nov 28, 2025.<\/p>\n Deputy Public Prosecutor Jheong Siew Yin said Wang was the one who introduced the loophole in Grab\u2019s courier service GrabExpress to the other Grab drivers.<\/p>\n As part of the service, Grab drivers are paid a commission fee for every successful delivery.<\/p>\n If they fail to make the delivery, they must return the item to the sender and indicate on the Grab mobile application that the parcel has been returned.<\/p>\n Grab will then cancel the delivery job and pay the driver for each attempted delivery.<\/p>\n DPP Jheong said the drivers behind the fraudulent transactions would accept GrabExpress bookings and immediately indicate on the application that the parcel was returned.<\/p>\n In reality, they had made no attempt to collect the items.<\/p>\n Court documents did not state if the affected senders alerted Grab when no one came to collect the items for delivery.<\/p>\n The prosecutor said each of the five drivers operated multiple Grab driver accounts registered under the names of other people but used their own profile photos.<\/p>\n \u201cThese drivers also exploited the fact that Grab did not conduct cross-checks of the profile photos of Grab drivers,\u201d DPP Jheong noted.<\/p>\n The DPP said that between May 8, 2025, and June 11, 2025, Wang repeatedly exploited the loophole and deceived Grab into believing he had carried out 667 attempted deliveries and cheated the firm into paying him $8,964.90.<\/p>\n The court also heard that from May 29, 2025, to June 10, 2025, he deceived Grab into believing that he had carried out 459 attempted deliveries and deceived Grab into paying $5,403 in delivery fees.<\/p>\n The ruse came to light when Grab conducted internal checks in 2025 and detected the fraudulent transactions from 24 Grab driver accounts operated by five drivers.<\/p>\n Wang was arrested on July 7, 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n