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Status: In force. The Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act 2019, commonly abbreviated as POFMA and known colloquially as Fake News Law, [2] is a statute of the Parliament of Singapore that enables authorities to tackle the spread of fake news or false information. The law is designed specifically to allow authorities to ...
Singapore billion dollar money laundering case. On 15 August 2023, the Singapore Police Force conducted an operation against money laundering. [ 1] It is the biggest money laundering case in Singapore, and among the biggest in the world, [ 2] involving assets worth 3 billion Singapore dollars. [ 3]
The Singapore Police has taken action against transnational crime syndicates on its own or in combined operations with the Royal Malaysia Police: Thirteen transnational scam syndicates with the arrest of more than seventy persons (2022). [61] Home rental scams that incurred $1.3 million losses from 480 victims (2023). [63]
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Scams these days go beyond Nigerian Princes.This article, Crime rate in Singapore rises ever-so-slightly, but mostly because of scam cases, originally appeared on Coconuts, Asia's leading ...
The strip search phone call scam was a series of incidents, mostly occurring in rural areas of the United States, that extended over a period of at least ten years, starting in 1994. The incidents involved a man calling a restaurant or grocery store, claiming to be a police officer, and then convincing managers to conduct strip searches of ...
Misuse of around S$50 million of City Harvest Church's funds. The City Harvest Church criminal breach of trust (CBT) case was one of the longest criminal trials in Singapore's history. [ 2] Church founder Kong Hee and five other church leaders were found guilty by a District Court on 21 October 2015 of CBT by agent after misappropriating some S ...
Major Crime Division. Specialised Crime Division. The Criminal Investigation Department ( CID) is one of the many departments under the Singapore Police Force for premier investigation and staff authority for criminal investigation matters within the Singapore Police Force. [1] It is led by the Director of CID and assisted by 3 Deputy Directors.