Man jailed for selling fake parking coupons

Man jailed for selling fake parking coupons
By Shaffiq Alkhatib | Posted: 03 November 2010 1800 hrs
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SINGAPORE: A 33-year-old man has been jailed 22 months for offences involving bogus parking coupons which were imported from China.

Lim Cheng Hai pleaded guilty on Wednesday to having 720 booklets of the coupons at Block 658D Jurong West Street 65 on March 21 last year.

He was earlier convicted on October 27 on five cheating charges involving them.

Following a six-day trial, a district court found him guilty of selling 280 booklets of fake coupons to three different shops in places such as Kranji and Jurong West.

Lim managed to collect S$2,800 from the businesses after duping their workers into believing that the coupons were genuine.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Nicholas Khoo told the court that the bogus coupons looked just like the genuine ones.

DPP Khoo added that Lim had sold the booklets to the innocent workers and did not care if they got into trouble with the law for selling fake government-related items.

For cheating the workers, Lim could have been jailed up to ten years and fined on each count.

-CNA/ac