Home > Breaking News > Singapore > Story
Sep 30, 2009
Fined for forged document <!--10 min-->
<!-- headline one : start --> <!-- headline one : end --> <!-- Author --> <!-- show image if available --> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr></tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold">By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
</td></tr></tbody></table>
A CHINESE national who submitted a forged nursing diploma to get a work pass was fined $5,000 on Wednesday. Ma Yuqing, however, will serve a default sentence of four weeks' jail as she could not pay the fine. A district court heard that the 37-year-old obtained a forged diploma in nursing from China Medical University and gave it to her employment agent in China to apply for a work pass in Singapore. On Jan 28, she lied to the Controller of Work Passes in her application for an S Pass that she was a nursing graduate from the Chinese university. She was given an S Pass to work as a medical assistant for J.R. Family Clinic and Acupuncture Centre where she worked until June 9. The Work Pass Division confirmed that Ma would still have been granted the S pass even if she did not have the forged qualification. Ma, who pleaded guilty, could have been fined up to $15,000 and/or jailed for up to 12 months.
Sep 30, 2009
Fined for forged document <!--10 min-->
<!-- headline one : start --> <!-- headline one : end --> <!-- Author --> <!-- show image if available --> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr></tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold">By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
</td></tr></tbody></table>
A CHINESE national who submitted a forged nursing diploma to get a work pass was fined $5,000 on Wednesday. Ma Yuqing, however, will serve a default sentence of four weeks' jail as she could not pay the fine. A district court heard that the 37-year-old obtained a forged diploma in nursing from China Medical University and gave it to her employment agent in China to apply for a work pass in Singapore. On Jan 28, she lied to the Controller of Work Passes in her application for an S Pass that she was a nursing graduate from the Chinese university. She was given an S Pass to work as a medical assistant for J.R. Family Clinic and Acupuncture Centre where she worked until June 9. The Work Pass Division confirmed that Ma would still have been granted the S pass even if she did not have the forged qualification. Ma, who pleaded guilty, could have been fined up to $15,000 and/or jailed for up to 12 months.
