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Dec 8, 2009
Jailed for helping immigrant
By Elena Chong
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A MAN who conspired with another to sneak an illegal immigrant out of Singapore was jailed for 28 months on Tuesday. Chua Kim Hai, 54, admitted to ferrying Chen Chunfeng alias Huang Mei Ying, 36, in a motorised sampan to a fish farm in Lim Chu Kang to enable her to transfer to another speedboat to leave for Malaysia illegally on Aug 9. A man known as Ah Wei promised to pay him $400 for the job. But before Chua and the Chinese national could reach the Second Link bridge where she was to have transferred to a Malaysian speedboat, they were arrested at the fish farm by officers from the Police Coast Guard. Chua, who has rape convictions in 1995, could have been jailed for up to five years. He escaped caning because of his age.
Home > Breaking News > Singapore > Story
Dec 8, 2009
Jailed for helping immigrant
By Elena Chong
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A MAN who conspired with another to sneak an illegal immigrant out of Singapore was jailed for 28 months on Tuesday. Chua Kim Hai, 54, admitted to ferrying Chen Chunfeng alias Huang Mei Ying, 36, in a motorised sampan to a fish farm in Lim Chu Kang to enable her to transfer to another speedboat to leave for Malaysia illegally on Aug 9. A man known as Ah Wei promised to pay him $400 for the job. But before Chua and the Chinese national could reach the Second Link bridge where she was to have transferred to a Malaysian speedboat, they were arrested at the fish farm by officers from the Police Coast Guard. Chua, who has rape convictions in 1995, could have been jailed for up to five years. He escaped caning because of his age.
