SINGAPORE — As Foodpanda’s payment executive, he put fictitious food delivery riders on the firm’s payroll, and got close to S$8,000 to cover his mounting credit card debts.
Firathul Fariz Ferhat, 28, who was later promoted to the role of a compliance manager, then found himself in the awkward position of having to lodge a police report on behalf of Foodpanda when auditors found a payment discrepancy of more than S$2,500 in January 2018.
At the police post, he tried to downplay the incident, telling them that his firm had “accidentally transferred” the amount to an ex-employee who could not be located.
Firathul, a Singaporean, was sentenced to two months in jail on Wednesday (July 10) after he pleaded guilty to two counts of forgery for the purpose of cheating.
Three other charges, including one of giving false information to police at Kampong Ubi Neighbourhood Police Post, were taken into consideration during sentencing.
Court documents stated that Firathul’s job at Foodpanda — when he was first hired in February 2016 — was to tabulate payments for the food delivery company’s freelance riders once every two weeks on Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
That was how he could amend the payroll spreadsheets, including adding fictitious riders’ identification numbers and names, and keying in the bank account numbers belonging to either his younger brother or himself.
His ruse went undetected for more than a year, starting from either July or August 2016, when he triggered a payment of S$1,608.01 to his younger brother’s account by creating a fake rider by the name of Muhammad Azman Ahmad.
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Firathul Fariz Ferhat, 28, who was later promoted to the role of a compliance manager, then found himself in the awkward position of having to lodge a police report on behalf of Foodpanda when auditors found a payment discrepancy of more than S$2,500 in January 2018.
At the police post, he tried to downplay the incident, telling them that his firm had “accidentally transferred” the amount to an ex-employee who could not be located.
Firathul, a Singaporean, was sentenced to two months in jail on Wednesday (July 10) after he pleaded guilty to two counts of forgery for the purpose of cheating.
Three other charges, including one of giving false information to police at Kampong Ubi Neighbourhood Police Post, were taken into consideration during sentencing.
Court documents stated that Firathul’s job at Foodpanda — when he was first hired in February 2016 — was to tabulate payments for the food delivery company’s freelance riders once every two weeks on Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
That was how he could amend the payroll spreadsheets, including adding fictitious riders’ identification numbers and names, and keying in the bank account numbers belonging to either his younger brother or himself.
His ruse went undetected for more than a year, starting from either July or August 2016, when he triggered a payment of S$1,608.01 to his younger brother’s account by creating a fake rider by the name of Muhammad Azman Ahmad.
More at https://www.todayonline.com/singapo...ers-gets-promoted-then-has-make-police-report
