A maid got herself involved the loan sharks. Initially, the amount she got from the sharks were only $3000 and of course being loan sharks they told the maid to return $6000 double the amount!
The employer has been receiving multiple harassment text messages such as:
“You worker owe me money So call me back to setter asap If not tonight we will ask man go up you place to do something.”
Source: http://sgkaypoh.com
An Indonesian maid threatened to kill her employer’s bedridden husband if he did not reveal the personal identification number (PIN) of his DBS ATM card to her, a district court heard.
Eko Alviah, 30, held a pair of scissors to Mr Chew Seng Mun’s neck and also threatened to cut his nipple when she demanded the 60-year-old’s PIN.
The victim, who was in his flat in Woodlands when the incident occurred on Sept 23 last year (2016), gave her a false PIN number. She then bound his hands and sealed his mouth with duct tape to stop him from shouting for help. She knew that Mr Chew, who had Parkinson’s disease and could only move around slowly, could still shout for help.
Eko, who had been working here for about a year at the time of the incident, then forced open a drawer in the master bedroom that contained her passport, said Deputy Public Prosecutor Jaime Pang.
When she found a box inside the drawer with 25 pieces of jewellery worth a total of $2,648, she took them together with her passport.
She also stole $100 that was on the living room table before leaving the flat.
She went to Woodlands North Plaza and tried to withdraw money from the ATM using Mr Chew’s ATM card. Realising she could not withdraw any money, she threw the card away.
She then boarded a ferry for Batam, Indonesia, where she sold the stolen jewellery to a makeshift stall for about $140.
Meanwhile, Mr Chew’s son found his father taped and bound after unlocking the bedroom door with a spare key.
Mr Chew died on Dec 30, 2016.
DPP Pang said Eko remained in Indonesia for the next seven months. In April this year, she applied for a new passport and made private arrangements to work for an employer in Singapore. She was screened at immigration and when she tried to return here on May 9, she was arrested.
Investigations further revealed that Eko had stolen $700 from Mr Chew’s wallet sometime in December 2015 when she was taking care of him.
The day before, Mr Chew asked Eko to count the money in his wallet. She told him there was $1,300 instead of the actual amount of $2,000, as she intended to steal $700.
She hid the money in her cupboard, and later transferred the cash to one of her shoes. She spent the money on a mobile phone and other personal items.
On Wednesday (July 26), Eko pleaded guilty to three charges. She was given four years’ jail for robbery; six months for criminal intimidation; and two months for theft as a servant.
District Judge Chay Yuen Fatt ordered two of the sentences to run consecutively, making her sentence a total of 50 months. He also imposed an additional 12 weeks’ jail in lieu of caning and backdated her sentence to May 11.
Eko, who had four other charges taken into consideration, could have been jailed for up to 10 years for robbery but was spared the six strokes because she cannot be caned. She could have been sentenced to seven years or more for criminal intimidation; and for theft as a servant, seven years and a fine.
Source: www.straitstimes.com
The Indonesian maid who was on the run for almost a week after her elderly employers were found bound and dead in their Bedok Reservoir flat has been caught.
Khasanah, 41, was arrested on Tuesday night when police in Indonesia’s Jambi province raided her hotel room.
Among the items found in her possession were several pieces of jewellery, watches, mobile phones, a laptop computer and cash in various currencies, Jambi police spokesman Kuswahyudi Tresnadi said yesterday.
It was reported that money and valuables were missing from the home of Mr Chia Ngim Fong, 79, and his wife, Madam Chin Sek Fah, 78, when their bodies were found.
Local police were tipped off on her whereabouts on Tuesday by residents in Tungkal Ilir, a rustic town located in West Tanjung Jabung regency on the east coast of central Sumatra, Mr Kuswahyudi added.
Khasanah was overheard talking on the phone at an Internet cafe and saying: “How is their condition? I don’t know if they died. I’m willing to repent by staying at a pesantren (Islamic boarding school).”
Her phone conversation raised suspicion because Indonesian counter-terrorism police have in recent months arrested several pesantren staff and students suspected of being extremists.
It was not clear who Khasanah was talking to on the phone or asking about, but when the police arrived at the Internet cafe, they found out that she had been browsing online reports on the Bedok murders, said Mr Kuswahyudi.
Jambi province is located more than 300km away from Singapore.
Source: www.tnp.sg
A 40-year-old woman identified to be the maid of the elderly couple who killed the latter at their Bedok Reservoir Road home has been arrested in Jambi, Indonesia on 27 June at 11PM (Indonesia time).
She was investigated by the Police after several individuals overheard her conversing on the phone to ask “how is the condition now? If it is too late, I just want to repent and stay in pesantren (religious school).” While browsing for news on the murder of the elderly couple in Singapore at an internet cafe, she was approached by the Police and arrested thereafter. When probed, the woman admitted to the Police that she has murdered the elderly couple.
After the arrest, the Police also found that she was staying at Hotel Number, Kualatungkal, Room 102. Checks on her identity revealed that her name is Khasanah which bears resemblance to the identity of the suspect named in online news regarding the murder of the elderly couple.
When arrested, the woman was found to possess a total of 5 different watches (1 X Black Ellesse; 1 X Black A&Q; 1 X Black Tag Heuer Monaco; 1 X Silver Adidas; 1 X Silver DBM Clubbing), three handphone sets, a laptop and some cash amounting to Indonesian Rupiah 801,000, Singapore Dollars $110 ($1 X 5; $5 X 2, $10 X 2; $25 X 3) and Brunei Ringgit RM150 (RM10 X 1; RM25 X 2). Other currencies that were found with her were Myanmar Kyats (50 Kyats X 1) Canadian Dollars ($5 X 1) and China Yuan (RMB5 X 2; RMB10 X 1).
Source: Sindo News
The maid who worked for an elderly couple who were murdered in their Bedok flat on Wednesday (June 21) is believed to have fled Singapore for an Indonesian island.
The Straits Times understands that she is a suspect in the double murder case, where a 79-year-old man and his 78-year-old wife were found motionless in their flat and later pronounced dead.
The maid, who is believed to be from Indonesia, was said to have lived with the couple for about a month.
She is believed to have fled to Harbourfront Centre on Wednesday and bought a ticket for the first available boat out, Shin Min Daily News reported on Thursday.
Police investigations are ongoing.
Source: www.straitstimes.com