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Jan 10, 2011
Manager jailed for $20,700 criminal breach of trust
By Elena Chong
A LOCAL shoe-chain executive who gambled away $20,733 from the outlet's daily sales collections was jailed for nine months on Monday for criminal breach of trust.
Michael Ng, 25, an Indonesian, was working at Charles & Keith's Suntec outlet at Temasek Boulevard when he committed the offence between Sept 13 and 24 last year.
The court heard that he was supposed to bank in the daily sales of the company's outlet but instead used the money to feed off his gambling habit.
He would take the daily proceeds and 'try his luck'' at the casinos. But he lost all the money.
He could have been jailed for up to 15 years and fined.
