Maid swapped employer’s gold necklaces and bracelets with fakes, jailed 4 months
The 46-year-old Indonesian maid stole gold necklaces and bracelets worth at least S$6,300 while her employer was overseas. This article ( Maid swapped employer’s gold necklaces and bracelets with fakes, jailed 4 months ) first appeared on The Independent Singapore News .
In Singapore, a maid from Indonesia was sentenced to four months and two weeks in prison after admitting to stealing her employer's gold jewelry. The 46-year-old woman allegedly switched genuine gold necklaces and bracelets with counterfeit ones over a three-month period, making off with more than S$6,000 worth of jewelry. The theft took place while the employer was away from the country from January to April of this year.
She entered his bedroom, opened a locked drawer, and took the jewelry. When the employer returned in April, he discovered one of the gold necklaces was missing and confronted the maid. The suspect admitted to her crime, stating she used the stolen gold bracelet as collateral to borrow money from a friend and pawned the gold necklace for S$4,300.
This money was used to pay off debts and send funds back home to cover her mortgage. The court sentenced her for one count of embezzlement.
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