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

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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. Among her offences, she misappropriated $155,000 using pre-signed blank cheques entrusted to her so...

Upon reaching Singapore, she was supposed to deposit the money into the company's bank account and create invoices on Plato to account for the payments received.Separately, she also took eight of the company's pre-signed blank cheques between January and April 2020. She used them to misappropriate $155,000.

On Oct 28, 2020, she contacted a patient and told him that he could pay his medical fees by transferring money to the company's bank account. The document had the clinic's letterhead, the same date and invoice number as the one issued to the patient and stated that the medical fees had been paid via multiple tranches of credit card payments to the company between Nov 3 and Nov 7, 2020.

 

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