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Singapore man exploits loophole he found in FoodPanda delivery app, orders $170,000 worth of meals & goods for freeSINGAPORE — A 25-year-old man, Ronny Lee Jia Jie, opened a fake company account on the food delivery platform FoodPanda twice in 2020. Taking advantage of the loopholes in the accounting system of the food delivery platform, he ordered $174,500 of food and goods without paying.
Ronny Lee opened the first fake company account in January 2020. At that time, he worked as an administrator in his father’s ship repair company Hestia Marine, but he pretended to be the company’s human resources director and registered a company account on FoodPanda without his father’s knowledge or authorisation.
Defendant Kiegan Tan Ming Ren, 32, pleaded guilty to five charges under the Remote Gambling Act and Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes Act. He was sentenced to 17 months in prison and fined $60,000. The judge also considered the other eight charges when sentencing.
Most Chinese consider the reunion dinner the most important part of the Chinese New Year celebration. The Reunion Dinner is an annual feast where family members reaffirm the love and respect that binds them together as a unit. It is also known as tuanyuan to mean “gathering around the family hearth.” This event is of sociological significance as it is a means to ensure the solidarity of the family and its cohesiveness.
Rama Shanker Singh, 59, a former inspector of the Singapore Police Force, was charged on Friday, Jan 20, with five counts of indecent assault, one count of violating the Films Act, and two counts of possessing obscene material. Police officer Abdul Gaffor Jainul Hussain was also charged with four counts of indecent assault on the same day.
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