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By Clement Yap
Giving false information to a public servant
Possible sentence: Jail extending to seven years or fine up to $10,000, or both if convicted under section 182 of the Penal Code - for enlisting somebody to 'take the fall for you'.
Example: In April, well-known cosmetic surgeon Woffles Wu (above left) was charged for getting an elderly employee take the blame for two speeding offences.
Woffles Wu had allegedly conspired with Mr Kuan Yit to provide incorrect information to the police.
Mr Kuan lied to the police that he was driving Wu's car when it was captured speeding on two occasions in 2005 and 2006.
Wu was fined $1,000 on June 13.
In 2008, Evangeline Tay Su Ann (above right), 22, bribed a property agent to take the blame after she beat a red light. She paid the property agent $1,000. However, she was caught and fined $2,000.
Her accomplices, the property agent and the policeman who had helped her, were both jailed. However, since Tay was suffering from depression at the time of the offence, she managed to escape a custodial sentence.
Even taking mitigating factors into account, it appears that one convicted of such an offence will rarely be able to avoid jail time.
A similar incident, when a brother helped his sibling out by 'taking the fall' in 2006 did not end well.
The brother was jailed for two weeks.
Drivers who get fall guys to take the blame
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(Photos: ST, Shin Min, TNP, Internet) |
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