A 29-year-old Indian-origin man has been imprisoned for more than three years for printing fake Singaporean currency notes here, as per a media report.
Sasi Kumar Lakshmanan chose to print fake money notes of SG dollar 100 and SG dollar 50.
Appointee open prosecutor Magdalene Huang said Lakshmanan chose to print some fake coin notes as he was in a money related trouble and owed credit sharks more than SGD 5,000.
He understood the photocopy of SGD 100 note was practically the same as the certifiable one. Taking after this, he photocopied note of that nearly looked like a honest to goodness SGD 100 note. He then printed another four duplicates of the notes and slice them to the right size, The Straits Times reported.
The following day, he delivered one of the fake SGD 100 notes to pay for two parcels of cigarettes totalling SGD 21.80. He stashed the SGD 78.20 in change, the report said.
The fake note was found by a slow down director, who griped to police on July 13, two days after Lakshmanan initially printed the fake notes.
Police attacked Lakshmanan's home and found, in addition to other things, a fake SGD 50 note.
In his composed moderation request, Lakshmanan said his better half was expected to convey their third youngster soon. He said he experiences epileptic fits and had quite recently found an occupation doing conveyances for a companion.
Two different charges of utilizing a fake note and having instruments for making them were thought about, as per the Singapore every day report.
He could have been imprisoned for up to 20 years and fined on every charge.