SINGAPORE — An executive in charge of a firm’s payroll system made false claims including bogus “transport” and “handphone” allowances of more than S$136,000...
SINGAPORE — An executive in charge of a firm’s payroll system made false claims including bogus “transport” and “handphone” allowances of more than S$136,000 over 12 months. She also pocketed cheques worth about S$3,000.
While employees’ basic salaries were stated on a spreadsheet signed and countersigned by the company’s managing director and chairman respectively, employee allowances were indicated only on payslips emailed to employees. Over January to November 2019, Tan continued to make multiple false claims to the company under various categories, including “handphone allowance”, “paid annual leave”, “backpay handphone allowance” and “back pay of basic”.Her first offences were a couple of years earlier, in August 2017, when Tan was given two cheques and tasked to transfer these amounts to the Central Provident Fund .
The managing director informed the company’s finance director that he had noticed discrepancies in Tan’s payslip, including allowances she was not entitled to claim. The woman’s lawyer, Mr John Koh of Populus Law Corporation, sought a lighter sentence of 15 months and six weeks’ jail, arguing that Tan was “deeply remorseful” for her actions and had pleaded guilty at an early stage.
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