Man gets jail, fine for facilitating work permits, opening bank accounts for Sarawak syndicate's money mules男子因协助砂拉越犯罪集团的洗钱者办理工作许可证和开设银行账户而被判入狱并处以罚款。
Ong Toon Nong intentionally facilitated the entry of 27 Malaysian money mules into Singapore to open bank accounts for illegal use.
Ong Toon Nong intentionally facilitated the entry of 27 Malaysian money mules into Singapore to open bank accounts for illegal use.
Ong Toon Nong arriving at the State Courts on Oct 22, 2026. (Photo: CNA/Ooi Boon Keong)
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SINGAPORE: A man who played a middleman to facilitate applications for work permits and harvest bank accounts in Singapore for a Sarawak-based syndicate was sentenced to jail on Thursday (Oct 22) for six years and one month.
Ong Toon Nong, a 41-year-old Malaysian national, was also fined S$6,000 (US$4,700).
The transnational syndicate offered money to Malaysians to open bank accounts in Singapore for illegal use, such as for scams.
These money mules needed work permits to enter Singapore and open the bank accounts, so Ong brokered a deal that would earn him S$200 for each work permit that was successfully applied for.
He intentionally facilitated the entry of 27 Malaysian money mules into Singapore and was responsible for cheating six banks in Singapore into opening a total of 107 bank accounts in the names of these money mules.
Ong did so knowing that the bank accounts would be handed over to the syndicate for illegal use, court documents said.
In the end, more than S$1.84 million flowed through these bank accounts, out of which around S$20,300 was traced to scam reports.
Ong was arrested on Aug 29, 2024.
He pleaded guilty to eight charges, including offences under the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits), the Computer Misuse Act, as well as the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act, with 34 other charges taken into consideration.
Ong has filed an appeal against his sentence.
HELPED APPLY FOR WORK PERMITS
Sometime in May 2024, a member of the syndicate informed Ong that he was looking for companies in Singapore to apply for work permits for Malaysians.
Ong was informed that the work permits were for the sole purpose of allowing Malaysians to enter Singapore and open bank accounts, and that the Malaysians had no intention of working in Singapore.
The accounts would be used for illegal purposes, such as for online casinos and online gambling.
Ong acted as a middleman between this member of the syndicate and a Singaporean who was in the business of making work permit applications.
The other two people communicated through Ong, including information such as medical documents and photographs of the passports of the Malaysian money mules, and instructions on which banks to open accounts with and to cancel work permits once the bank accounts were harvested.
For each successful work permit application, the syndicate member would pay Ong S$1,800, of which S$1,600 would be given to the Singaporean making work permit applications.
Ong entered into the arrangement because he saw an opportunity to earn money. He received a total of between S$5,000 and S$6,000 for the four months he was part of the syndicate.
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Ong Toon Nong 故意协助 27 名马来西亚洗钱者进入新加坡，开设银行账户用于非法用途。
王敦农于2026年10月22日抵达国家法院。（图片：CNA/Ooi Boon Keong）
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新加坡：一名男子为砂拉越犯罪集团充当中间人，协助其在新加坡申请工作准证并盗取银行账户，于周四（10月22日）被判处六年零一个月监禁。
41岁的马来西亚公民翁东农也被罚款6000新加坡元（4700美元）。
这个跨国犯罪集团向马来西亚人提供金钱，让他们在新加坡开设银行账户，用于非法用途，例如诈骗。
这些洗钱者需要工作许可证才能进入新加坡并开设银行账户，因此翁先生促成了一项交易，每成功申请到一张工作许可证，他就能赚取 200 新元。
他故意帮助 27 名马来西亚洗钱者进入新加坡，并欺骗新加坡的六家银行以这些洗钱者的名义开设了总共 107 个银行账户。
法庭文件显示，翁明知这些银行账户会被移交给犯罪集团用于非法用途，却仍然这样做。
最终，超过 184 万新元的资金流经这些银行账户，其中约 20300 新元被追溯到诈骗举报中。
Ong于2024年8月29日被捕。
他承认犯有八项罪名，包括违反《贪污、贩毒及其他严重犯罪（没收利益）法》、《计算机滥用法》以及《雇用外国人力法》的罪行，另有 34 项其他指控被考虑在内。
Ong已就其判决提出上诉。
协助申请工作许可
2024 年 5 月的某个时候，该团伙的一名成员告诉 Ong，他正在寻找新加坡的公司，为马来西亚人申请工作准证。
Ong被告知，这些工作准证的唯一目的是允许马来西亚人进入新加坡并开设银行账户，而这些马来西亚人并没有在新加坡工作的打算。
这些账户将被用于非法用途，例如在线赌场和在线赌博。
Ong充当了该犯罪团伙成员和一名从事工作准证申请业务的新加坡人之间的中间人。
另外两人通过 Ong 进行沟通，包括提供医疗文件、马来西亚洗钱骡子的护照照片等信息，以及在哪些银行开户和在银行账户被洗劫一空后取消工作许可证的指示。
每成功提交一份工作准证申请，该团伙成员将向 Ong 支付 1800 新元，其中 1600 新元将支付给提交工作准证申请的新加坡人。
翁之所以参与这项安排，是因为他看到了赚钱的机会。在他加入该团伙的四个月里，他总共获得了5000至6000新元的报酬。
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