Jail for woman who misappropriated nearly $550k while working for clinic operator

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Jail for woman who misappropriated nearly $550k while working for clinic

SINGAPORE - A woman misappropriated nearly $550,000 when she was working for a company that operates a clinic called the Vascular & Interventional Centre in Novena Specialist Centre.

The court heard that Fauziah was an administrative manager for The Vascular & Interventional Group when she committed the offences.Deputy Public Prosecutor Melina Chew said that Fauziah was responsible for all of the clinic's finance, accounts and general office administration matters. The DPP said that on four occasions between February and October 2019, some of the clinic's employees travelled to Myanmar to provide medical treatment to patients.

The court heard that she had issued the cheques to two of her unsuspecting friends who agreed to receive the money in their bank accounts on her behalf. She gave him her personal bank account number instead and he was duped into transferring more than $25,000 to it.

 

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