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SINGAPORE \u2013 A man who allegedly made 181 unauthorised bookings<\/span><\/a> of a football field belonging to the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) was handed three cheating charges on Sept 23.<\/p>\n Sashi M Kirubakaran, 41, who was a deputy manager at the university at the time of the alleged offences, had claimed that the bookings were for university-linked events.<\/p>\n By doing so, Sashi purportedly induced Exer-Fit Consultancy Services, which provides fitness solutions, to waive the booking fees.<\/p>\n This resulted in a revenue loss of over $130,000 for SUTD, the police said on Sept 22.<\/p>\n Court documents did not specify the connection between SUTD and Exer-Fit.<\/p>\n However, a recent listing by Exer-Fit on the JobStreet portal indicates that it supports daily operations at the university\u2019s sports centre.<\/p>\n Sashi allegedly cheated Exer-Fit between April 14 and Dec 30, 2023, by making 37 bookings of the football field.<\/p>\n This purportedly led to a loss of over $23,000.<\/p>\n He is also accused of lying to the consultancy, claiming that the bookings were for events linked to SUTD.<\/p>\n He allegedly committed similar offences between Jan 1, 2024, and May 4, 2025.<\/p>\n They were said to involve another 144 bookings and more than $109,000 in damage for the university.<\/p>\n Court documents and the police statement did not state why he allegedly made the bookings and who they were for.<\/p>\n The Straits Times has reached out to SUTD for comment on Sashi\u2019s current employment status and the university\u2019s connection to Exer-Fit.<\/p>\n His case will be mentioned again in court in October.<\/p>\n For each count of cheating, an offender can be jailed for up to three years, fined or both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 A man who allegedly made 181 unauthorised bookings of a football field belonging to the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) was…<\/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-87332","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\/87332","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=87332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87332\/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=87332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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