SINGAPORE — Soon after stealing an excavator from a Jurong industrial area and attempting to sell it, Nanthakumaran Lokanathan fled to Malaysia and was arrested only two years later.
The 44-year-old Singaporean was on Thursday (Aug 26) jailed two-and-a-half years after pleading guilty to a theft charge.
Court documents did not state how he stole the heavy construction equipment, which was worth about S$31,000.
But the court heard that construction firm Ram Brothers Construction & Trading rented it and last left it along a pathway outside 14 Jalan Tukang in Jurong on March 28, 2018.
The next day, a representative from the firm checked the excavator’s global positioning system and realised that it was on the premises of used-vehicle-parts dealer Hon Li Hin Enterprise, in the Kranji industrial area.
Closed-circuit television camera footage showed that Nanthakumaran brought the excavator into the compound around 11.30am that day before leaving.
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