Illegal employment, false declarations: 27 syndicate members arrested for suspected employment offences

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A total of 27 people were arrested this week for their involvement in a syndicate that brings foreign workers illegally into Singapore. The offences include illegal employment, making false declaration in work pass applications and inflation of a firm’s migrant worker...

“The syndicate makes CPF contributions to Singaporeans to fraudulently inflate the shell companies’ quota to hire foreigners. These Singaporeans, or ‘phantom workers’, are not employed by these companies,” said the ministry.

The ministry reiterated that all employers and work pass applicants must make accurate, complete and truthful declarations to the Controller of Work Passes in work pass applications under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act . Errant employers will also have their work pass privileges suspended, and the work pass applicant may be prosecuted and permanently barred from working in Singapore.

 

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