Case and status
Former customs officer Li Xiangqing received 18 months’ imprisonment and S$92,284.89 penalties on ten proceeded tourist-refund fraud charges involving S$30,761.63. The offences occurred during 2011–2012.
Facts, amounts and outcome
Li used rejected travellers’ refund details and his eTRS-system access to send refunds to credit cards under his control. He persuaded a friend to obtain a card on the false premise of concealing a side business, then used it to receive fraudulent refunds. The release distinguishes his conviction from the 2017 charging report. Access to an official processing system did not confer a personal entitlement to the rejected refunds.
Official source
This report is independently written from the IRAS release dated above. Case status, policy announcements and historical figures refer to that release.
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