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Woman charged with illegal transfers involving funds from scam victims

SINGAPORE - A woman who allegedly provided illegal transfers involving money from victims of online scams was hauled to court on Tuesday (Jan 19). Maslenie Mohamed Ramli, 38, was slapped with two charges under the Moneylenders Act and one charge under the Payment Services Act. According to court documents for the charge under the Payment Services Act, she allegedly provided domestic money transfer services and received $4,855 across 13 transactions to her POSB account in May last year for the purpose of carrying out transactions to a local bank account. She did not have a valid licence to do so and was not an exempt payment provider. The police said she claimed to have responded to a job advertisement online and was employed as an account personnel to perform the bank transfers. Maslenie was allegedly promised a daily commission for assisting in providing payment services using her bank account. The funds, however, were found to be proceeds of crime from victims of online scams. The two charges under the Moneylenders Act pertain to her allegedly assisting an unlicensed moneylender by providing her ATM cards to him in 2018. She told the court on Tuesday that she is disputing the cha...