{"id":63319,"date":"2026-06-24T09:46:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=63319"},"modified":"2026-06-24T09:46:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:46:01","slug":"man-arrested-for-allegedly-stealing-50000-during-meeting-to-purchase-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=63319","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for allegedly stealing $50,000 during meeting to purchase cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013<!-- --> <!-- -->A <!-- -->man<!-- --> was arrested for allegedly stealing cash amounting to <!-- -->$50,000<!-- --> from a victim during a meeting to purchase cryptocurrency<!-- --> late at night on June 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">According to the police, who were alerted to a case of theft in <!-- -->New Upper Changi Road<!-- --> at <!-- -->11.55pm<!-- --> that day, the victim had arranged to meet the<!-- --> <!-- -->suspect to purchase USDT cryptocurrency amounting to <!-- -->$100,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">While preparing to hand the money over to the suspect, the victim had placed a portion of the cash on a bench, the police said in a statement on <!-- -->June 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The <!-- -->25-year-old <!-- -->suspect<!-- --> <!-- -->then allegedly grabbed <!-- -->$50,000<!-- --> worth of the cash placed on the bench and fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Police officers arrested the suspect after establishing his identity with footage from police and CCTV cameras, and recovered cash amounting to <!-- -->$7,450.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The suspect is expected to be charged with the offence of theft on <!-- -->June 24<!-- -->. If found guilty, he can be <!-- -->jailed for up to three years, fined, or both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/man-arrested-for-allegedly-stealing-50000-during-meeting-to-purchase-cryptocurrency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A man was arrested for allegedly stealing cash amounting to $50,000 from a victim during a meeting to purchase cryptocurrency late at night&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}