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S'pore's 'Edison Chen' pleads guilty to 8 charges
By Shaffiq Alkhatib | Posted: 04 January 2011 1654 hrs
SINGAPORE: A 28-year-old property agent admitted on Tuesday that he had targeted the homes of some of his former clients and broke into them to steal.
Besides housebreaking, Chen Guilin - who was known among netizens as Gary Ng - also pleaded guilty to forgery and possession of obscene films.
Chen had gained notoriety by posting on the internet homemade videos of himself engaged in sex.
He originally faced 21 charges but 13 were taken into consideration.
The ERA-registered property agent was found to have 507 obscene films in his possession.
Nearly all of them were homemade, showing Chen having sex with different women.
The slim, bespectacled man had uploaded some of these clips onto the internet with the women's faces masked.
Chen admitted that he had dishonestly made off with more than S$170,000 worth of cash and valuables.
He had broken into the homes of some of his former clients by duplicating the keys to the units.
In one such incident, Chen broke into an apartment at Water Place Condominium at Tanjong Rhu sometime between August 13 and 30, 2009.
He made off with items including some RM2,000, two credit cards and a portable television worth around S$600.
Chen also admitted to forging the signatures of two women to withdraw cash totalling more than S$90,000 from their bank accounts.
One of his victims was a former client, while the other, a friend of an ex-girlfriend.
Chen asked passersby to encash the forged cheques on his behalf between September 4 and December 4, 2008, in exchange for rewards of S$500 each.
This is to avoid being caught should the bank officers realise that the signatures had been forged.
He will be sentenced on January 19.
For forgery, he could be jailed up to 10 years and fined for each charge.
For housebreaking, he could be jailed a maximum of 10 years.
And for possessing obscene films, Chen could be jailed up to six months.
-CNA/wk
By Shaffiq Alkhatib | Posted: 04 January 2011 1654 hrs
SINGAPORE: A 28-year-old property agent admitted on Tuesday that he had targeted the homes of some of his former clients and broke into them to steal.
Besides housebreaking, Chen Guilin - who was known among netizens as Gary Ng - also pleaded guilty to forgery and possession of obscene films.
Chen had gained notoriety by posting on the internet homemade videos of himself engaged in sex.
He originally faced 21 charges but 13 were taken into consideration.
The ERA-registered property agent was found to have 507 obscene films in his possession.
Nearly all of them were homemade, showing Chen having sex with different women.
The slim, bespectacled man had uploaded some of these clips onto the internet with the women's faces masked.
Chen admitted that he had dishonestly made off with more than S$170,000 worth of cash and valuables.
He had broken into the homes of some of his former clients by duplicating the keys to the units.
In one such incident, Chen broke into an apartment at Water Place Condominium at Tanjong Rhu sometime between August 13 and 30, 2009.
He made off with items including some RM2,000, two credit cards and a portable television worth around S$600.
Chen also admitted to forging the signatures of two women to withdraw cash totalling more than S$90,000 from their bank accounts.
One of his victims was a former client, while the other, a friend of an ex-girlfriend.
Chen asked passersby to encash the forged cheques on his behalf between September 4 and December 4, 2008, in exchange for rewards of S$500 each.
This is to avoid being caught should the bank officers realise that the signatures had been forged.
He will be sentenced on January 19.
For forgery, he could be jailed up to 10 years and fined for each charge.
For housebreaking, he could be jailed a maximum of 10 years.
And for possessing obscene films, Chen could be jailed up to six months.
-CNA/wk
