Man sentenced to 22 months in jail for hiring scapegoats for illegal gambling houses
Published on Mar 9, 2015 5:35 PM
Abdul Haleem Abdul Majeed was sentenced to 22 months in jail on Monday for hiring scapegoats for a gambling house operator. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
By Lim Yi Han
SINGAPORE - A man was sentenced to 22 months in jail on Monday for hiring scapegoats for a gambling house operator.
Abdul Haleem Abdul Majeed, 47, pleaded guilty to 17 charges under the Prevention of Corruption Act. Another 51 charges were taken into consideration.
Between 2005 and 2007, Abdul Haleem received $109,360 from Chua Chin Hoe, a syndicate head operating a chain of illegal gambling houses.
Chua ran his illegal gambling business in unlicensed jackpot machine outlets and Internet cafes and hired people to register as owners of the cafes. These scapegoats would be paid a fixed sum of money every month and were promised a single large payout if they had to serve a jail term for Chua.
