by Elena Chong
A FORMER hotel assistant housekeeping executive who forged
payment vouchers for her married boyfriend for work purportedly
done, was jailed for six weeks on Wednesday.
Malaysian Jennifer Chong Cheng Yoong, 41, had admitted to 10 of
116 counts of forgery involving $1,092 in February 2010. The
accomplice, Muhammad Saufi Idross, 37, has since been charged. His
case is at pre-trial stage.
The court heard that between August 2009 and February 2010,
Chong helped Saufi get salary payments for work he did not do at
the hotel by forging 116 casual labour payment vouchers so that he
could use them to claim salary payments.
Saufi used the vouchers and submitted them to claim salary
payments amounting to $14,851. Chong, whose lawyer said she
committed the offences out of love for the father of two, had paid
back the sum to the hotel.
Her lawyer Lim Kia Tong said she did not gain anything from the
help she had given to Saufi who gained from all the money taken and
was also paid for the employer's Central Provident Fund
contributions to his account.
She could have been jailed for up to four years and/or fined on
each charge.