Maid jailed for stealing credit cards

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In one month, a foreign domestic worker used her employer's credit cards, which she had stolen, to buy a smartphone, groceries and a pair of spectacles amounting to about $1,500. Myanmar national Yin Yin Maw, 38, was sentenced to eight months' jail and fined $6,000...

Days later, she spent about $430 on the card to buy a Samsung Galaxy A7 smartphone and also bought a pair of spectacles for about $175.

Mr Chua later lodged a report stating he had lost his CIMB credit card and there had been unauthorised transactions on it.She then used it to buy clothes amounting to about $190 from BHG department store. She also used the cards to buy groceries on multiple occasions from NTUC FairPrice, for food and drinks at eateries and to top up her ez-link card.Deputy Public Prosecutor Genevieve Pang said there was a certain degree of planning involved and Yin had used the cards to buy things for personal use.For theft-in-dwelling, she could have been jailed up to seven years and fined.She could also have been jailed up to two years and fined up to $20,000 for working without a valid employment pass.

Source: Loan Digest (loandigest.net)

 

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