Taiwanese hired to harass debtors
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Oct 15, 2010 - Straits Times
HE WAS hired in Taiwan two months ago and promised $3,600 a month to harass debtors here for a loan shark syndicate. But Wu Ting-Yi was arrested before he could get started.
The 29-year-old Taiwanese was jailed for seven months yesterday by a district court for conspiring to commit acts of harassment for an unknown illegal moneylending syndicate. He could have been jailed for up to five years and fined up to $50,000.
According to court documents, Wu, who was unemployed, was recruited in Kaohsiung, a city in south-west Taiwan, by a syndicate member known only as Xiao Su.
He was told that his air ticket to Singapore and accommodation here would be paid for and that his job was to deface walls and lock debtors with outstanding loans inside their homes.
For this, he would be paid $3,600 a month. If arrested, he would receive $900 in compensation for every month he served in jail and an additional $3,600 if he was caned.
He then flew down with another Taiwanese, Chen Ci Fan, on Aug 20 this year, after both were granted month-long social visit passes.
Wu was arrested on Aug 22, in a carpark in Hamilton Road near Lavender MRT station, before he even got started.
He has been in remand since.
The court was told that Chen, 30, had also been arrested and that his case would be heard later this month. Xiao Su, who is also Taiwanese, is on the run.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Sherlyn Neo told the court that at least eight foreigners, including Wu, have been involved in illegal moneylending activities in recent times.
Lawyer S. S. Dhillon told The Straits Times that more Singaporeans, aware of stiffer sentences for such offences, are becoming harder to recruit, so syndicates turn to foreigners.
KHUSHWANT SINGH
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Nowadays even foreigners preferred for loanshark runner... LOL...
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now ah long runner also FT liaox ah???
really facepalm sia...
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chinese mar
when police wan to search
they cant identify if he Singaporean or other country
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Sgreans going extinct.
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Taiwanese can speak hokkien.. got more bargaining power... can KPKB longer.....
Our ah beng here not intimidating enough.. apart from KNN... CCB.. they dun seem to know proper hokkien... thats y FAIL liao.... -
Originally posted by Junyang700:
Taiwanese can speak hokkien.. got more bargaining power... can KPKB longer.....
Our ah beng here not intimidating enough.. apart from KNN... CCB.. they dun seem to know proper hokkien... thats y FAIL liao....youngster cannot speak dialects, job requirements not met.
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Originally posted by Clivebenss:
youngster cannot speak dialects, job requirements not met.
Ya lor... Uncle 40 - 50 years out come out shout back... CANNOT FIGHT LAH!
War of words already lose liao... -
very the fail leh... haven't even start already arrested
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å¤¸å¼ ï¼�ï¼� they cant recruit anyone in the south east asian region?
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here the toughest gang comes in 3 numbers. 9, nine and a third '9'