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Guilty of credit card
fraud
By DAWN TAY
RECENTLY crowned Miss Singapore World Ris Low, 19, had earlier
been found guilty of credit-card fraud.
The beauty queen was convicted of five charges of
misappropriation, cheating using illegally obtained credit cards,
and impersonating their users' identities.
The first-time offender was sentenced in May this year to 24
months of supervised probation, said a Subordinate Courts spokesman
in response to a query from my paper.
Another 60 charges were taken into consideration for the
purposes of sentencing, he said.
Court documents show that Miss Low spent a total of more than
$2,400 on at least four separate occasions, using at least three
different credit cards in April and May last year.
my paper understands that her previous employer, a
health-care company, made a police report about her in April last
year.
It suspected that Miss Low, who worked there for five months as
a patient-service assistant, had used credit cards belonging to its
patients. It asked her to leave the following month.
Before leaving, she was said to have returned a part - an
unspecified sum - of the total amount she had spent using the
cards.
When contacted, Miss Low, now a student, said that she was "not
in a position to comment".
The international Miss World pageant will be held in
Johannesburg, South Africa, in December. It is unclear whether Miss
Low will be allowed to leave the country to take part in it.
