Indonesian money mule jailed five years over $2.7m laundering case
Published on Sep 29, 2014 2:00 PM
By Elena Chong
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SINGAPORE - A Indonesian woman was jailed for five years yesterday for laundering $2.7 million - believed to be the second-largest amount of its kind in Singapore.
Rina, a 28-year-old planner who worked in a factory in Batam and goes by one name, was asked by a Dutchman known to her as David Mark to take stolen funds amounting to $2.5 million to Malaysia.
She befriended Mark online in September 2012 and, two months later, he suggested that she work as a "money courier" for him.
Rina agreed, and he told her to pick up cash from other money mules in Singapore before handing it over to a Nigerian man, known as Benson, in Johor Baru.
