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A durian stall assistant who was given the passcode to the shop’s safe while covering for his supervisor during this year’s Chinese New Year stole $17,300 from it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He later gambled away the entire amount at Marina Bay Sands casino, reported Shin Min Daily News on Saturday (June 27).\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old Malaysian Tan An Sheng pleaded guilty to one charge of criminal breach of trust and was sentenced to five months in jail.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The incident happened at Top Durian Station, located at Blk 154 Bukit Batok Street 11. At that point, Tan had been working there for around nine months.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As the stall’s supervisor went on leave, Tan was assigned to temporarily take over the role.<\/p>\n
He was given the safe’s passcode for the first time and was responsible for tallying and reporting <\/strong>each day’s earnings before depositing the money into the safe.<\/p>\n Tan later stole a total of $17,300 from the safe on two separate occasions. The first time, he took a stack of $50 bills amounting to $1,000, and the second time, he stole the remaining $16,300 of cash.\u00a0<\/p>\n He then went to the Marina Bay Sands casino and gambled, hoping to win enough money to repay his debts to loan sharks. However, he ended up losing everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n Tan later confessed his crimes to his supervisor on Feb 23 and also asked the supervisor to inform the company director.\u00a0<\/p>\n Speaking to the Chinese publication, Top Durian Station’s <\/strong>director said that he did not know Tan had a gambling problem.\u00a0<\/p>\n “After the incident, the company originally intended to give him a chance and deduct the money from his salary as compensation,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n But after repaying around $2,204, Tan started borrowing money from customers and neighbouring stall owners to feed his gambling addiction.<\/p>\n Top Durian Station’s operator shared that around 50 of these customers came and demanded that Tan repay them.\u00a0<\/p>\n Even after the stall made a police report and Tan was arrested, people continued coming to the stall to look for him.<\/p>\n Several stall owners told Shin Min Daily News that they had lent money to Tan.\u00a0<\/p>\n [[nid:737897]]<\/p>\n melissateo@asiaone.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A durian stall assistant who was given the passcode to the shop’s safe while covering for his supervisor during this year’s Chinese New Year stole…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64557,"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-64556","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\/64556","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=64556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}50 customers came to ‘collect debts’<\/h2>\n
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