He was duped by 'lover' to be money mule
November 23, 2013 - 1:04am
By: Shaffiq Alkhatib
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He can never return to Singapore, a country he had been working in for six years.
Former restaurant manager Peter (not his real name), 31, a Filipino, was arrested for being a money mule after he allowed a criminal to use his bank account. He was jailed for six months and released on Nov 5.
Speaking from the Philippines, he said: “At least it’s all over. The only thing was that they restricted me from entering Singapore forever.”
He is one of the 17 money mules convicted from January last year until this September.
In a press conference on Friday, the police said that the number of cases involving money mules have gone up from 93 cases for the whole of last year to 133 in the first nine months of this year.
The police are now working with the Association of Banks in Singapore and the National Crime Prevention Council to address the problem.
