After alighting at Changi Airport, the China national went to Marina Bay Sands casino to convert his stolen cash into Singapore currency.
The 54-year-old man stole the equivalent of about S$120,000 from a jeweller on a Singapore Airlines flight on Mar 5. SINGAPORE: A man who stole the equivalent of about S$120,000 from a jeweller on a Singapore Airlines flight was sentenced to two-and-a-half years' jail on Friday .These are for theft, carrying cash exceeding S$20,000 into Singapore without declaring it, converting some of the stolen cash into casino chips and attempting to remit some money to China.
The compartment of the bag that held the cash was not zipped up, and the jeweller dozed off at times, or visited the washroom. However, when he got to his office about three hours after landing, he realised a large amount of cash was missing and rushed to report the case.Peng also alighted at Changi Airport. He had on him cash of various denominations, including the stolen amounts, totalling S$124,473.
The company would not accept more orders from him as he did not have a work permit, so he visited another outlet where he attempted to remit about S$9,500 to his brother in China.Peng was arrested in the wee hours of the next day after intensive police investigations involving trawling of security camera footage and an ambush operation.
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