Boss fined for illegally taking $136,000 from workers
Published on Jun 3, 2014 10:06 AM
Lin Pinghe, of Yi Hoe Construction, was fined $20,000 for receiving $136,500 in illegal payments from 20 workers from China in 2011. -- ST PHOTO: AZIZ HUSSIN
By Elena Chong Court Correspondent
A businessman was yesterday fined $20,000 for illegally taking payments from his employees as a financial guarantee.
Lin Pinghe, a director of Yi Hoe Construction, was not allowed by law to do so.
He pleaded guilty to 20 counts of receiving $136,500 in prohibited payments from 20 workers from China in 2011.
The 54-year-old was also sentenced to four weeks' jail in a separate case of abetting Chinese national Weng Yanqiu to get a forged academic certificate from an agent in China in her application for an S-Pass in April that year.
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