A Singaporean police inspector, Chan Zhiyao, has been charged with misusing a computer system, criminal breach of trust, and obstructing justice after allegedly pocketing $4,000 and influencing a witness's statement.
A police inspector was hauled to court on Sept 24 after he allegedly committed a range of offences, including pocketing $4,000 which had been entrusted to him and telling a woman to lie in her statement to one of his colleagues.
Chan is said to have unlawfully passed the report number to a 36-year-old Vietnamese woman, identified as Tran Thi Tien. Court documents stated that some time between Dec 9 and 10, 2020, Chan, who was then a senior investigation officer, allegedly accessed SPF’s Crimes II computer system and obtained the police report number.Details about the case linked to the police report number were not disclosed in court documents.
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