Woman sentenced for fraud charges

A 30-year-old woman was sentenced to two years of imprisonment for fraud-related charges at the District Court today (September 20).

The court heard that the defendant purchased mobile phone sets on behalf of a telecommunications company and resold them to second-hand phone dealers since November 2001. A total of 240 orders for the purchase of 742 mobile phone sets was made while the total amount involved was over $1.3 million.

In August 2005, the defendant resigned and joined a new trading company. She falsified a cheque stolen from the boss of the trading company in order to settle the overdue balance of previous mobile phone set purchases. In October 2005, the cheque was bounced and a report was made to Police.

After intensive investigations by officers of Police Commercial Crime Bureau, it was discovered that the defendant had made those orders without consent of the telecommunications company. She intended to profit from transactions within a short period, but resulting in further losses.

On October 26, 2005, the defendant was arrested and later charged with 12 counts of fraud and one count of using a false instrument.

She pleaded guilty to all her charges at the District Court and the sentence was handed down today.


Police Report No. 11
Issued by PPRB

Wednesday, September 20, 2006