Maid stole employer’s ATM card whereas cleansing, gave it to her buddy who withdrew greater than S$14,000

SINGAPORE: A maid stole her aged employer’s ATM card whereas cleansing, despatched the cardboard through courier to a buddy and instigated her buddy to withdraw S$14,350 from the sufferer’s financial savings account.

Huriah, 29, was sentenced to 6 months’ jail for her crimes on Wednesday (Dec 28).

She pleaded responsible to at least one depend of abetment of theft, with one other three expenses considered.

The court docket heard that Huriah, an Indonesian, labored for a 75-year-old girl who lived along with her husband.

She began work as a home employee in October 2021 and was paid S$635 monthly. By Huriah’s personal account, the sufferer and her household handled Huriah effectively, the court docket heard.

In September 2022, Huriah discovered that the sufferer stored financial institution playing cards together with a UOB ATM card in her purse.

The sufferer additionally stored a pocket book containing passwords to the financial institution playing cards in her bag.

In September 2022, whereas cleansing the residence, Huriah stole the UOB card. She despatched the cardboard to her buddy, Fujirah Febri Jamaryanti, through a courier.

Between Sep 15 and Sep 19 this yr, Huriah instigated Fujirah to withdraw a complete of S$14,350 from the sufferer’s financial savings account with the UOB card.

Not one of the cash was recovered and no restitution was made.

The sufferer lodged a police report in October 2022 saying there have been 4 unauthorised withdrawals from her POSB financial savings account amounting to S$3,000.

Huriah had finished this in October 2022, in a cost considered.

CNA has requested the Legal professional-Basic’s Chambers what motion, if any, is being taken towards Fujirah.

The punishment for theft is a jail time period of as much as three years, a superb, or each.