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02-08-2013, 01:50 PM
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SINGAPORE: A technical producer with MediaCorp was sentenced to jail for eight months on Monday for allowing her bank account to be used to receive stolen money.

51-year-old Khanim Omar received some S$388,000 that was stolen from the bank account of a Russian businesswoman based in Barcelona.

The court heard that Khanim got to know a Wayne Derache through a dating website sometime in January 2012.

A few months later, he asked her to assist him in allowing her POSB bank account to receive overseas payments. He promised her S$15,000 for these transactions.

Between July 26 and August 1, 2012, Khanim received three overseas remittances. She would then withdraw the money and pass it to a third party at King Albert Park, as instructed by Derache.

The court also heard that the Sabadell Atlantico bank in Barcelona had received emails -- purportedly from the Russian businesswoman Ms Ksenia Korsun -- instructing it to transfer various amounts of money to Khanim's bank account.

Ms Korsun had not authorised any of these transactions and later lodged a police report.

For dishonestly receiving or retaining stolen property, Khanim could have been jailed up to five years and fined; for transferring the stolen property, she could have been jailed up to seven years and fined.

- CNA/ac


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