A WOMAN who forged insurance policies and bank documents amounting to more than $150,000 was sentenced to 12 months in jail on Tuesday.
Candace Reis Ang Hui Hoon, 28, unemployed, had earlier pleaded guilty to forging a DBS fixed deposit withdrawal form purportedly signed by her husband, Mr Lim Chin Foong, 30, to induce the bank to transfer $50,144 into a POSBank account on March 13, 2007.
She also admitted to forging a letter on April 24 that year to deceive United Overseas Bank into delivering a cashier's order for $50,224 to her husband, which she misappropriated.
A district court heard that her husband reported unauthorised withdrawal of funds from his joint fixed deposit banking accounts with his mother on Oct 22 that year.
After he confronted Ang about it, she admitted that she had made the unauthorised withdrawals. She claimed she would pay him back. Three days later, he lodged a police report.
No restitution was made.
Four other similar charges were taken into consideration.
Ang, who has a child and is separated from her husband, succeeded in deferring her sentence until June 9 to attend to her child who is sick.
She could have been jailed for up to 10 years and fined on each of the two proceeded charges.
(source: www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_381850.html )
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