SINGAPORE - Two surveyors who had accepted bribes to misreport the theft of gas oil as part of a massive heist to steal oil from Shell's manufacturing site at Pulau Bukom have been jailed. Read more at straitstimes.com.
With their help, multiple incidents of gas oil theft worth up to $2.5 million went undetected between 2016 and 2017.A. Duraisamy, 60, was jailed for 10 months and fined $42,870.60. He will remain in jail for an additional seven weeks as he is unable to pay the fine.
The court heard that Duraisamy and Lee worked for firms that helped to inspect the quantity of cargo, such as gas oil, supplied to vessels in Singapore by Shell. The heist was said to have been masterminded by former Shell employees Juandi Pungot, Muzaffar Ali Khan Muhamad Akram and Richard Goh Chee Keong, who bribed surveyors to hide the theft of oil.for his role in masterminding the misappropriation of more than 200,000 tonnes of gas oil worth $128 million. This was one of the longest prison sentences for a commercial crime.