{"id":86988,"date":"2026-09-22T17:30:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T09:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=86988"},"modified":"2026-09-22T17:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T09:30:01","slug":"sutd-deputy-manager-to-be-charged-over-unauthorised-football-bookings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=86988","title":{"rendered":"SUTD deputy manager to be charged over unauthorised football bookings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text-primary article-summary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 A <!-- -->Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)<!-- --> staff member who allegedly made <!-- -->more than 180<!-- --> unauthorised bookings of the varsity\u2019s football facilities is set to be charged on <!-- -->Sept 23<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The police said on <!-- -->Sept 22<!-- --> that they had received a report stating that the<!-- --> 41-year-old man<!-- --> had used his position as a <!-- -->deputy manager<!-- --> at the university to make the unauthorised bookings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Preliminary investigations found that the man had made the bookings over about<!-- --> three years, with the alleged improprieties coming to light on July 3, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The fraudulent bookings resulted in a total revenue loss to SUTD of <!-- -->more than $130,000<!-- -->, said the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The man is believed to have deleted records from the booking system in an attempt to conceal his actions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He will be charged in court for cheating and forgery. If found guilty, he could be<!-- --> jailed for up to four years, fined, or both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The police said they take a serious view of those who abuse their positions of trust to commit criminal offences, and will not hesitate to take firm action against those who blatantly disregard the law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/sutd-deputy-manager-who-made-over-180-unauthorised-bookings-of-football-facilities-to-be-charged\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) staff member who allegedly made more than 180 unauthorised bookings of the varsity\u2019s football facilities&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86989,"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-86988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86988","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=86988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}