SINGAPORE: During the COVID-19 pandemic, a man conspired with two others to sell work passes to 18 foreigners who wanted to stay in Singapore but did not intend to work.
Sim Kian Boon Terence, 36, pleaded guilty on Tuesday (May 13) to six counts under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act, with another 12 similar charges considered for sentencing.
He was sentenced to two years in prison, two strokes of the cane and a S$32,000 (US$25,000) penalty. He will serve two months’ jail in lieu of the penalty, as his lawyer said he was not in a position to pay.
The ruse involved setting up shell companies and using the companies’ foreign worker quotas for foreigners who wanted to stay…