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Feb 25, 2010
Charged with casino fraud
<!-- by line --> By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
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Loo is out on $15,000 bail after he was charged with cheating, attempted cheating, giving false information and theft. The taxi driver had pretended to be his older brother.
THE first man taken to court for casino-related offences at Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) was yesterday accused of impersonating his brother to get into the casino, attempted cheating and giving false information to a police officer. Taxi driver Loo Siew Wan, 53, was also charged with stealing his elder brother Loh Siow Kok's Singapore driving licence at a coffee shop along Bedok Reservoir Road at 6.30pm on Sunday. Four hours later, he made his way to Singapore's first integrated resort at Sentosa Gateway where he allegedly posed as the 55-year-old businessman to enter the casino premises.
Loo, who is prohibited from entering the casino under an exclusion order, is said to have deceived an RWS security manager by posing as his older brother on Monday at 6.12pm. And at about 9.30pm that day, he allegedly tried to cheat a casino dealer on duty at a baccarat table by placing a bet of two $100 chips on the 'banker' after the result of the game had been declared. He did this with the intention of making the dealer believe that he had a winning bet and tried to get his payout of chips amounting to $190. His is the first case handled by the Criminal Investigation Department's Casino Crime Investigation Branch.
Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.
Feb 25, 2010
Charged with casino fraud
<!-- by line --> By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
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Loo is out on $15,000 bail after he was charged with cheating, attempted cheating, giving false information and theft. The taxi driver had pretended to be his older brother.
THE first man taken to court for casino-related offences at Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) was yesterday accused of impersonating his brother to get into the casino, attempted cheating and giving false information to a police officer. Taxi driver Loo Siew Wan, 53, was also charged with stealing his elder brother Loh Siow Kok's Singapore driving licence at a coffee shop along Bedok Reservoir Road at 6.30pm on Sunday. Four hours later, he made his way to Singapore's first integrated resort at Sentosa Gateway where he allegedly posed as the 55-year-old businessman to enter the casino premises.
Loo, who is prohibited from entering the casino under an exclusion order, is said to have deceived an RWS security manager by posing as his older brother on Monday at 6.12pm. And at about 9.30pm that day, he allegedly tried to cheat a casino dealer on duty at a baccarat table by placing a bet of two $100 chips on the 'banker' after the result of the game had been declared. He did this with the intention of making the dealer believe that he had a winning bet and tried to get his payout of chips amounting to $190. His is the first case handled by the Criminal Investigation Department's Casino Crime Investigation Branch.
Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.