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Man charged with armed robbery at Bukit Batok licensed moneylender involving $22,000

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SINGAPORE - A man was charged in court on Saturday (July 10) with armed robbery at a licensed moneylender in Bukit Batok. Syed Shahrul Nazrin Syed Mohibur Rahman, 30, allegedly committed the offence at about 7.10pm on Thursday at Block 372 Bukit Batok Street 31. He is accused of going to the licensed moneylender and showing a woman working there a handwritten note. Syed allegedly had two notes with him, but it is not clear which was shown to her. The first note read: "Don't panic. Don't shout. This is a robbery. Fill up the bag with money. You have two minutes. Or else!" The second note read: "This is a robbery. Don't shout. Don't panic. Put all the money in the bag and nobody will get hurt." Syed, a Singaporean, also purportedly indicated that he had a knife in his bag. The employee complied with his instructions and handed him $22,000 in cash. Syed is said to have fled the scene, but was arrested in Lorong 8 Geylang about 11 hours later. He had allegedly taken steps to mask his identity by covering his features with a hat and long-sleeved top, and had avoided leaving any trace of evidence at the crime scene. The police seized about $18,500 in cash, the two notes and a bag from hi...

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‘We are really unlucky’: Employee of moneylender robbed twice in five months

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SINGAPORE - It was deja vu when staff at a Jurong East moneylender experienced the second robbery at their shop on Monday (April 12), just five months after the first. The November case involved a knife, with the culprit pulling the hair of an employee at OT Credit while holding the weapon. He fled with $48,000. The stakes were even higher in Monday's case - Aetos officer Mahadi Muhamad Mukhtar, 38, is said to have robbed OT Credit while armed with a revolver. He allegedly took $24,000. When The Straits Times visited the unit at Block 135 Jurong Gateway Road on Thursday, an employee, who declined to be named, told ST: "I just think we are very unlucky." The second robbery took place after tighter security measures were taken by the shop, including the installation of a new alarm system. The employee said the shop is working with the police to further increase security, but did not elaborate, citing safety reasons. The two cases have also caused concern to a neighbouring shop, NBL Money Transfer, whose staff on Thursday urged the authorities to step up patrols and checks in the area. "It has happened twice here within five months," Madam Lutfunnesa Shahanaz, 53, the money remittance...

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Aetos officer charged with robbing Jurong East shop of over $24,000 with a gun

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SINGAPORE - An Aetos auxiliary police officer has been charged with armed robbery with a firearm, the first such offence in 15 years. The 38-year-old man had allegedly robbed a money-lending company in Jurong Gateway Road before fleeing with more than $24,000 in cash at about 3.55pm on Monday (April 12), the police said. Preliminary investigations revealed that staff at the unit were shown a handwritten note that said: "This is a robbery, don't shout. I got a gun in my pocket. Put all the money in the bag." The staff purportedly handed him the cash before he fled. The suspect was allegedly carrying a firearm during the robbery but did not reveal it to the staff. He is believed to have acted alone, said the police in a statement. Police added that the last armed robbery involving a firearm happened in 2006 at a 4-D outlet at Sun Plaza Shopping Centre. Through extensive investigations and aided by images from police cameras and shop closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, officers from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Police Intelligence Department and Clementi Police Division, with the help of Aetos staff, established the identity of the man, who was an on-duty Aetos a...