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SINGAPORE – A woman cheated her employer of nearly $800,000 from 2014 to last year by submitting more than 700 false travel claims.
A district court heard that Tan Nyuk Hong used the money on soccer betting, personal expenses and paying her debtors. She had made no restitution.
Tan, 45, who has since been asked to go by software company Autodesk Asia, was sentenced on Monday (Dec 23) to four years’ jail, after pleading guilty to three counts of cheating involving more than $560,000.
Two other similar charges linked to the remaining amount were considered during sentencing.
The company employed her as a senior accounts payable analyst in 2011, a job that gave her access to its financial accounting software system.
Three years later, she found several claims were erroneously made under her name.
Tan started looking for such claims and found the “FB01” code had been used to process them. Court documents did not state what “FB01” meant.
As the system usually processed payments every Wednesday evening, she started submitting false claims for air fares, using the code.
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