Jail for man who used forged qualifications to land jobs for more than 10 years

Whimsica

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Why forge a local degree?
Just buy a South Asian degree and he will be treated as talent.
Cannot perform also never mind.
More than 75% of foreign talents also cannot perform.
But when you present an NTU degree you are expected to slog & do everything while being treated as inferior.
 

Milodrink

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funny sia, normally high position will need to verify ma. How come he can get hired for director position?

I applied junior positions kena checked alot and even need to provide ex- superiors/reference contact info lor.


Ya any hr expert can shine many lights on this why and how.
 

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Jail for man who used forged qualifications to land jobs for more than 10 years​


https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...fications-to-land-jobs-for-more-than-10-years
SINGAPORE - A man who forged university degrees was able to get hired in many finance positions, getting away with his scheme for more than a decade.

Since 2009, Yeoh Keng Swee, 55, forged degrees, certificates and transcripts, which he then used to get hired by 11 companies.

He held finance and audit positions in nine of these companies, including one where he was the company’s chief financial officer.

But his long paper trail of forged qualifications was uncovered when Nanyang Technological University (NTU) filed a police report against him in January 2021.

The report said the school had received a request for degree verification, and that the degree submitted by Yeoh was forged.

On Thursday, Yeoh was jailed for 15 months after pleading guilty to three counts of forgery for the purposes of cheating.

Another 10 similar charges were taken into consideration for sentencing.

In July 2019, Yeoh forged the following documents:
  • A Bachelor of Accountancy degree certificate from NTU;
  • A Bachelor of Accountancy with Honours degree certificate from NTU;
  • An official transcript from NTU;
  • A Singapore-Cambridge General Certificate of Education (Ordinary Level) from the Ministry of Education;
  • A Master of Science in Business Administration degree certificate from Andrews University;
  • An academic transcript from Andrews University;
  • A certificate stating that he was a Certified Practising Accountant from the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants; and
  • A Certificate of Membership as a Chartered Accountant of Singapore from the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants.
He used these documents to apply to be the chief financial officer of Boon Chang Structure and started work in September 2019.

But his work performance was poor and drew many complaints.

He resigned in December 2019, claiming his eyesight was failing, but was paid wages of about $14,000 in total.

In January 2020, he forged the same documents he used for his Boon Chang job application, and applied for the finance director post at Gain City Best-Electric.

He started work in February 2020, but was terminated in July 2020 after failing the performance criteria.

He was paid about $51,000 in total.

According to court documents, the other companies that hired him from 2009 to 2015 based on forged qualifications are:
  • Paul Wan & Co;
  • Verita Advanced Wellness;
  • Tri-Star Industries;
  • Adventist Nursing & Rehabilitation Centre;
  • Bentz Jaz Singapore;
  • Huaxin Agrimarine Holdings;
  • Risis;
  • Contineo Media; and
  • Karay Holdings.
Yeoh forged the qualifications by searching for copies online and printing them out to use as templates.

He printed his name and details on another piece of paper, cut them out and pasted them over the templates before photocopying the edited templates to create the forged copies.

In December 2020, he applied for a job as a construction project manager at Success Forever Construction using forged documents.

But during the interviews, he could not properly answer questions testing his technical knowledge.

When he overheard the interviewer and her employer discussing the verification of his qualifications, he withdrew his job application and asked the interviewer to destroy the documents he had submitted before leaving.

At the start of his hearing on Thursday afternoon, Yeoh had tried asking the court to stop the media from reporting on his case.

He said that his relatives, family and friends would be affected.

Senior District Judge Ong Hian Sun then informed him that there was no gag order on the case, which was being heard in open court.

The court heard that after his arrest, Yeoh worked as a kitchen assistant cum cashier, earning about $1,000 a month.

His lawyer, Ms Audrey Koo, asked the court for leniency, saying her client could not afford restitution, and suffered from high blood pressure and kidney disease.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Lee Zu Zhao said the prosecution was aware Yeoh may not have the means to make compensation, and did not seek an order for one.

For each count of forgery for the purpose of cheating, Yeoh could have been jailed for up to 10 years and fined.


No one csi on LinkedIn ah
 

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This also tells us not all companies do background checks to verify the authenticity of degrees…

NTU should be super easy to check one.
But funny lor if the company is hiring high rank position like CFO or director, minimize will still need to check if their cert and past hiring history is real or not ma. Those companies hired him is not ulu company lor. Their HR need to be punished. :mad:
 

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yeoh ahh yeoh :s22:

but he did his tasks as assigned w/o raising any suspicions in all those ten years?

amazing :s22:
 

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But funny lor if the company is hiring high rank position like CFO or director, minimize will still need to check if their cert and past hiring history is real or not ma. Those companies hired him is not ulu company lor. Their HR need to be punished. :mad:
Maybe they checked past hiring history and is real, then they thought previous company check his education already…?
 

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He buy from bonafide South Asia institution could have potentially earn 60k upwards

Forge NTU and work so old still 10k+
NTU really cmi
 

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One common factor is these forger job hop alot before their incompetence is being discovered. Sp once his performance is under scrutiny, he is ready to look for another job.
I thought employers are wary of job hoppers? How did he even managed to work in so many companies, moreover at his age. I am puzzled.
 

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Cfo 14k salary. Shows edmw so many dua pao xians when they're just coders :vijayadmin:
 

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Jail for man who used forged qualifications to land jobs for more than 10 years​


https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...fications-to-land-jobs-for-more-than-10-years
SINGAPORE - A man who forged university degrees was able to get hired in many finance positions, getting away with his scheme for more than a decade.

Since 2009, Yeoh Keng Swee, 55, forged degrees, certificates and transcripts, which he then used to get hired by 11 companies.

He held finance and audit positions in nine of these companies, including one where he was the company’s chief financial officer.

But his long paper trail of forged qualifications was uncovered when Nanyang Technological University (NTU) filed a police report against him in January 2021.

The report said the school had received a request for degree verification, and that the degree submitted by Yeoh was forged.

On Thursday, Yeoh was jailed for 15 months after pleading guilty to three counts of forgery for the purposes of cheating.

Another 10 similar charges were taken into consideration for sentencing.

In July 2019, Yeoh forged the following documents:
  • A Bachelor of Accountancy degree certificate from NTU;
  • A Bachelor of Accountancy with Honours degree certificate from NTU;
  • An official transcript from NTU;
  • A Singapore-Cambridge General Certificate of Education (Ordinary Level) from the Ministry of Education;
  • A Master of Science in Business Administration degree certificate from Andrews University;
  • An academic transcript from Andrews University;
  • A certificate stating that he was a Certified Practising Accountant from the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants; and
  • A Certificate of Membership as a Chartered Accountant of Singapore from the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants.
He used these documents to apply to be the chief financial officer of Boon Chang Structure and started work in September 2019.

But his work performance was poor and drew many complaints.

He resigned in December 2019, claiming his eyesight was failing, but was paid wages of about $14,000 in total.

In January 2020, he forged the same documents he used for his Boon Chang job application, and applied for the finance director post at Gain City Best-Electric.

He started work in February 2020, but was terminated in July 2020 after failing the performance criteria.

He was paid about $51,000 in total.

According to court documents, the other companies that hired him from 2009 to 2015 based on forged qualifications are:
  • Paul Wan & Co;
  • Verita Advanced Wellness;
  • Tri-Star Industries;
  • Adventist Nursing & Rehabilitation Centre;
  • Bentz Jaz Singapore;
  • Huaxin Agrimarine Holdings;
  • Risis;
  • Contineo Media; and
  • Karay Holdings.
Yeoh forged the qualifications by searching for copies online and printing them out to use as templates.

He printed his name and details on another piece of paper, cut them out and pasted them over the templates before photocopying the edited templates to create the forged copies.

In December 2020, he applied for a job as a construction project manager at Success Forever Construction using forged documents.

But during the interviews, he could not properly answer questions testing his technical knowledge.

When he overheard the interviewer and her employer discussing the verification of his qualifications, he withdrew his job application and asked the interviewer to destroy the documents he had submitted before leaving.

At the start of his hearing on Thursday afternoon, Yeoh had tried asking the court to stop the media from reporting on his case.

He said that his relatives, family and friends would be affected.

Senior District Judge Ong Hian Sun then informed him that there was no gag order on the case, which was being heard in open court.

The court heard that after his arrest, Yeoh worked as a kitchen assistant cum cashier, earning about $1,000 a month.

His lawyer, Ms Audrey Koo, asked the court for leniency, saying her client could not afford restitution, and suffered from high blood pressure and kidney disease.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Lee Zu Zhao said the prosecution was aware Yeoh may not have the means to make compensation, and did not seek an order for one.

For each count of forgery for the purpose of cheating, Yeoh could have been jailed for up to 10 years and fined.
He should return all the salaries he was paid by those companies.
 

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"But during the interviews, he could not properly answer questions testing his technical knowledge.....,,"

self pawn
at least googled a bit la

ask on the spot, you think he can google ... and some on job technical question need basic (degree-level) understanding + real work sexperience to answer one ... if you are not degree studied + specialist on that field, give you google on the spot you also may not understand or answer it ... ie coding a program on a C language with some given inputs to give specific answer output. :s17:
 
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difference between forged and fake university
One buys a fake bullet-proof vest faked by the fake factory, that bullet can shoot through

one make a fake bullet-proof vest oneself, which is not produced by a factory, that the bullet can shoot through
 
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