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4 years’ jail for ex-sales manager who cheated 2 firms, causing over $726k in losses

He used to work as a sales manager at communications technology provider NEC Asia Pacific.

Former NEC Asia Pacific sales manager Seno Kunihide was sentenced to four years in prison on Aug 11, 2025, for cheating two companies out of over US$537,000. He committed forgery as well, costing a third firm nearly US$120,000. The Singaporean pleaded guilty to two counts of cheating and one count of forgery. Seno tricked JEB Innovations & Technologies into delivering servers by impersonating NEC, causing a loss of over US$63,000.

He then duped Asiacloud Solutions into purchasing graphics cards amounting to nearly US$892,000, resulting in a loss of about US$474,300. Additionally, Seno forged a quotation to deceive Topstar Technology Industrial Co. into paying US$128,000, causing a US$120,000 loss. He was fired from NEC in April 2022 and declared bankrupt in December 2024, arrested in July 2025.

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