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SINGAPORE – In need of cash, an avid gambler convinced her friend to withdraw his entire Central Provident Fund (CPF) savings of more than $53,000 in 1999 and hand over at least $500 of his salary every month from 2000 to 2013.
Dishwasher Tan Hwee Ngo, now 71, claimed that the money was for Singapore’s late founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew.
Petrol pump attendant Tan Soy Kiang, who has mild intellectual disability, believed her lies and did as he was told even though he earned only between $700 and $1,300 a month.
The court had earlier heard that Tan cheated Mr Tan, now 76, of at least $130,000 in total.
The con woman was sentenced on Monday (Aug 31) to two years and three months’ jail after District Judge Terence Tay found her guilty of 169 cheating charges in July following a trial.
The judge had said that Tan was “unabashed at using her age as both a sword and a shield to levy unfounded allegations at the investigation officers and to portray herself as a hapless victim”.
The court had heard that Mr Tan started working as a petrol pump attendant in 1992.
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