2 weeks' jail, $2,000 fine for runner who made $32 in profit

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2 weeks' jail, $2,000 fine for runner who made $32 in profit

Published on Sep 21, 2011​

A purchasing officer of an engineering firm moonlighted as a runner for a horse-racing bookie - earning 10 cents for every $4.20 ticket he sold. -- PHOTO: ST FILE

By Khushwant Singh

A purchasing officer of an engineering firm moonlighted as a runner for a horse-racing bookie - earning 10 cents for every $4.20 ticket he sold.

On Sept 21, Oliver Loh Lim Heng was fined $20,000 and jailed for two weeks. The 50-year-old had pleaded guilty to acting as a runner on June 5.

A second charge for committing a similar offence two days earlier was taken into consideration by district judge Eddy Tham when passing sentence.

Police officers had raided Loh's Jurong West flat on the evening of June 5.

Read the full story in Thurday's edition of The Straits Times.