Jailed for credit card fraud

[chowka]

Sep 17, 2010
Jailed for credit card fraud

By Elena Chong

A MAN who used someone else's credit card to buy two Rolex watches was sentenced to four weeks' jail on Friday. Fabian Michael Chiu Toh Hui, 48, unemployed, had admitted to cheating a watch shop at People's Park Complex by signing on the charge slip to deceive the staff into believing that he was the rightful owner on April 23, 2008.

He had gone there with his girlfriend who had presented the card, bearing the name of Liby Thomas, to buy the watches worth $12,000. He is out on $15,000 bail, pending his appeal against sentence. Investigation showed that Mr Thomas had applied for the OCBC Platinum credit card in April 2008.

Subsequently, the credit card was inadvertently sent to Chiu's unit at Grange Road instead of the complainant's. The watches have been recovered. Chiu, an undischarged bankrupt, could have been jailed for up to three years and/or fined for cheating.

 

[Cao Pi]

Cheat used card to buy Rolex


Sep 18, 2010
Cheat used card to buy Rolex

By Elena Chong

WHEN another person's credit card arrived in his letter box by mistake, Fabian Michael Chiu Toh Hui used it to buy a pair of Rolex watches costing $12,000, instead of reporting the matter. Yesterday, the 48-year-old was sentenced to four weeks' jail for cheating. The unemployed man, who is an undischarged bankrupt, is out on $15,000 bail pending his appeal against the sentence.

Chiu pleaded guilty last month to deceiving a staff member at Lucky Watch Palace in People's Park Complex into believing that he was the rightful owner of the OCBC Visa credit card presented by his girlfriend to pay for the watches in April 2008. The card, however, belonged to a Mr Liby Thomas. A second charge of misappropriating the credit card was taken into consideration.

Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.