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SINGAPORE – A man repeatedly submitted forged polytechnic certificates to the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) University – which was later renamed Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) – as he wanted to gain a place to study there.
Singaporean Kieffer Tay Kai Xian, 24, was fined $5,500 on Thursday (Dec 19) after pleading guilty to a forgery charge.
Three other similar charges were considered during sentencing.
The court heard that Tay was so “desperate” to study finance at SIM University that he altered his Temasek Polytechnic academic transcript by editing his cumulative grade point average from 1.76 to 2.76.
He thought that doing so would increase his chances of gaining admission into the university.
Around September 2016, he submitted the forged transcript in his application. The university’s management conducted a check and rejected his application after finding out that the transcript had been doctored.
Undeterred, Tay continued committing similar offences the following year, when SIM University was renamed SUSS and became an autonomous university under the Ministry of Education.
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