Sixteen more charges were on Tuesday (Jun 16) slapped on James Sim Guan Liang, 39, who is accused of illegally using 293 SingPass accounts to access the Central Provident Fund (CPF) and Media Development Authority (MDA) websites.
Sim now faces an additional 13 charges of abetting to make false statements to attempt to obtain a Singapore visa for another person, plus three fresh charges of handing over possession of his identity card to another person. He now faces a total of 884 charges.
Sim is accused of handing over his SingPass login details to “Lemon aka Long”, who then created false statements for visa applications for 13 China nationals. Electronic records showed that Sim was cited as either friends or relatives of the China nationals.
Sim was also accused of handing over his identity card to “Lemon”, in three of the new charges.
He was previously accused in 868 counts under the Computer Misuse Act, where 575 of them were for illegal access to users’ CPF Member’s Homepage and/or MDA’s Online Services and Application Migration server. The remaining 293 charges were for emailing SingPass details to “Lemon”, who is believed to have used the information to make false statements to obtain a Singapore visa.
Sim remains on S$30,000 bail and will have his case heard in a pre-trial conference on Jun 26 at 3pm.
For parting with possession of an identity card to any person, Sim could be sentenced to a maximum of ten years’ jail as well as fined up to S$10,000. For abetting to make a false statement to obtain a Singapore visa, Sim could be sentenced to a maximum of 12 months’ jail and face a S$4,000 fine.
Source: www.channelnewsasia.com
