3 Bangladeshis investigated for lodging false police report
AsiaOne
Saturday, Dec 01, 2012
SINGAPORE - Police are investigating three male Bangladeshi nationals aged between 22 and 28 for making a false police report.
On November 28 at about 10.30pm, the trio had called the police informing them that they had been robbed at knife point at Tai Seng Link by four unknown Indian people.
They said that the suspects had taken their cash amounting to $150 and their work-permits during the robbery.
The suspects then allegedly ran off to a waiting car, which sped off.
Upon receiving the report, police officers conducted extensive enquiries at the crime scene.
Through follow-up investigations, it was revealed that the three had lost their work permits and hatched a plan to report a robbery in order to explain to their employer about the loss.
Investigations against the three subjects are on-going.
Anyone convicted of lying to a public servant can be fined up to $5,000, imprisoned for a term up to a year, or both.
The police would like to remind the public of the dire consequences of making such reports, which result in a waste of police resources that could otherwise have been better deployed to other more urgent cases.
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