He was a property agent who fled to Malaysia after scamming his clients of their rental money. While he was on the run, he deceived his family members into believing that he was kidnapped and induced them to transfer him money.
In 2017, Tan decided to cheat the landlord and tenants of a Guillemard flat, who were his clients. He prepared two sets of tenancy agreements, with higher rental amounts and security deposits listed for one set of agreements meant for the tenants. In January 2018, Tan lied to the tenants that the landlord required the rental payment to be made earlier when no such request was made. Tan then misappropriated the payment. In another incident the following month, Tan misappropriated a cash cheque of $4,600 meant for a tenant.“He said he wanted to start afresh elsewhere in the world, and asked his family to help him as he “only a small window to leave,” said Deputy Public Prosecutor Ho Lian-Yi.
By 11 March 2018, he had lost all his money except for $1,000 in his bank account. He texted a client, a tenant of a unit in Killiney Road to say that the landlord had requested for the rental to be transferred to another bank account, which was his own. He misappropriated the money that was sent to the account and gambled it away.
Tan’s wife filed a police report about the alleged kidnap and the Royal Malaysia Police were alerted.
Source: Real Estate Daily Report (realestatedailyreport.net)
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