Auxiliary police officer gets 16.5 years' jail, caning for robbing Jurong moneylender of S$24,800

, a Canadian tourist who fled Singapore after robbing a Standard Chartered bank branch in Holland Village of S$30,450 in July 2016.

Two other charges under the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes Act were taken into consideration for sentencing.The court heard that Mahadi began borrowing money from unlicensed moneylenders in February last year. He needed to pay off bank loans and had been helping his friend Nur Shana Mohd Taib, 34, with her own financial difficulties.

He subsequently went to the Aetos Complex in Jurong West to report for work and collect equipment from the armoury. This included a model M85 Taurus revolver, handcuffs and 10 rounds of ammunition. He then decided to copy Roach’s approach in the StanChart robbery. To that end, he went to a toilet in JCube and wrote this message: “This is a robbery, don’t shout. I got gun in my pocket. Put all the money in the bag.”

At the time, the police said Mahadi was identified through footage from police cameras and OT Credit’s closed-circuit television cameras.Deputy Public Prosecutor Timotheus Koh sought 15 to 20 years’ jail along with the mandatory minimum 18 strokes of the cane.

Source: Loan Digest (loandigest.net)

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