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SINGAPORE: A woman who hired a freelance cleaner to tidy her apartment once a week began suspecting the worker of theft, so she planted dollar notes in her bag after writing down their serial numbers.<\/p>\n
When the cleaner came as usual one day, three of the S$50 (US$39) notes went missing. The employer confronted her and matched the serial numbers of the three notes in the cleaner’s pocket to the numbers she had recorded, before calling the police.<\/p>\n
Nant Aye Thandar Soe, a 30-year-old woman from Myanmar, was sentenced to two weeks’ jail on Monday (Jun 15) for one count of theft.<\/p>\n
The court heard that the victim, a 35-year-old Singaporean woman, engaged Helpling, a house-cleaning service, in September 2025.<\/p>\n
The company assigned Nant Aye Thandar Soe to do the job at the victim’s home.<\/p>\n
She cleaned the flat every Thursday and had access to all the rooms while doing so.<\/p>\n
On May 27 this year, the victim realised that some money was missing from her bag and suspected the cleaner.<\/p>\n
The next day, she installed a closed-circuit television camera in her flat.<\/p>\n
She also placed 20 S$50 notes in her bag, taking down their serial numbers before placing the bag in a corner of her room.<\/p>\n
At about 6.30pm on May 28, the cleaner arrived at the flat. About 40 minutes later, she spotted the victim’s bag with its zip open.<\/p>\n
She removed the victim’s wallet from the bag, took three S$50 notes and placed them in her pocket.<\/p>\n
At about 8pm that day, the victim checked her bag and found that three notes were missing.<\/p>\n
She confronted the cleaner, who took out four S$50 notes from her pocket.<\/p>\n
The victim matched the serial numbers she had recorded to three of the notes. The fourth belonged to the cleaner.<\/p>\n
The victim then called the police.<\/p>\n
For theft, the worker could have been jailed for up to seven years and fined.<\/p>\n
CNA has contacted Helpling for more information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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