SINGAPORE — For about six months, field engineer Yeo Kok Peng misappropriated Wi-Fi routers meant for Singtel internet service customers.
6 months’ jail for engineer who took 84 Wi-Fi routers worth S$36,000, sold them online to fund gambling habitWhile contracted as a field engineer, Yeo Kok Peng misappropriated 84 Wi-Fi routers from a companyHe then sold them online and used the proceeds to gamble.
INS, a company specialising in the installation and maintenance of telecommunication networks, was contracted by Singtel at that time to install equipment like Wi-Fi routers for Singtel’s customers. During an inventory check, a project manager at INS discovered that Yeo failed to account for routers withdrawn from the storeroom between October 2021 and March 2022. The project manager made a police report in June 2022.
Seeking a jail term of between five and seven months, DPP Chew described Yeo’s conduct as “persistent” and involving a high degree of premeditation.
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