Odd job worker jailed 4 1/2 years for being a mule
He received monies totalling $1.25m and got $10,400 for his role
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IN April 2012, Ngiam Kok Min, a 45-year-old Singaporean odd job worker, was approached by Chua Gek Choo, Diana Nicole, to open bank accounts with DBS, POSB, OCBC and United Overseas Bank in order to receive money from overseas. Ngiam was promised a 3 per cent commission for the work. Thereafter, he received large sums of monies totalling $1,249,829.23 from various remitters in the US, Canada and Cook Islands. Despite his suspicions, Ngiam subsequently withdrew and passed monies totalling $850,000 to Chua in person on six occasions.
Ngiam received a total sum of $10,451.94 for his work. The banks of the various overseas remitters were deceived into remitting money from the remitters' accounts into Ngiam's accounts after receiving fraudulent e-mail instructions.
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