A 30-year-old Myanmar woman was sentenced to two weeks' jail in Singapore for hiring a thief cleaner who stole from her employer's bag.
Add CNA as a trusted source to help Google better understand and surface our content in search results.cards interface. Give it a try. SINGAPORE: A woman who hired a freelance cleaner to tidy her apartment once a week began suspecting the worker of theft, so she planted dollar notes in her bag after writing down their serial numbers.
When the cleaner came as usual one day, three of the S$50 notes went missing. The employer confronted her and matched the serial numbers of the three notes in the cleaner's pocket to the numbers she had recorded, before calling the police. Nant Aye Thandar Soe, a 30-year-old woman from Myanmar, was sentenced to two weeks' jail on Monday for one count of theft.
The court heard that the victim, a 35-year-old Singaporean woman, engaged Helpling, a house-cleaning service, in September 2025. She cleaned the flat every Thursday and had access to all the rooms while doing so. On May 27 this year, the victim realised that some money was missing from her bag and suspected the cleaner. She also placed 20 S$50 notes in her bag, taking down their serial numbers before placing the bag in a corner of her room.
At about 6.30pm on May 28, the cleaner arrived at the flat. About 40 minutes later, she spotted the victim's bag with its zip open. At about 8pm that day, the victim checked her bag and found that three notes were missing. The victim matched the serial numbers she had recorded to three of the notes.
The fourth belonged to the cleaner. For theft, the worker could have been jailed for up to seven years and fined. Get our pick of top stories and thought-provoking articles in your inbox
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