S'porean man, 31, working at Yishun jewellery store swapped gold pieces with Taobao copies, pawns them, gets jail
Wai used the ill-gotten gains to pay off his debts and to gamble.
In December 2025, a 31-year-old Singaporean man named Darren Wai Mun Jun was employed as an assistant store manager at CHJ Singapore Jewel at Northpoint City. He was responsible for assisting the manager, attending to customers, and holding the shop key. Wai planned to replace 24 pieces of gold jewellery with fake ones from the Chinese online platform, Taobao.
To avoid detection, he weighed the items, selected matching fake pieces, and switched their price tags. He stole and pawned the real gold pieces for S$131,253 in cash, which he used to pay off debts and gamble. Wai was sentenced to two years, four months, and two weeks in jail after pleading guilty to theft and dealing with the benefits of his criminal conduct. He has not made restitution.
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