19 people charged for scamming insurance companies

19 people, including two women, were charged in a district court on Friday with conspiracy to cheat insurance companies in a motor insurance scam. They faced between one and 28 charges each, reported The Straits Times.

Su Chia Ern, 44, who chalked up the most charges, is accused of scheming with several people to cheat NTUC and Tenet Insurance into making payments for third party property damage claims and bodily injury claims in 2008 and 2009.

In all, he is alleged to have deceived the two companies into paying a total of almost $270,000 in eight purported accidents. The amounts deceived ranged from $1,400 to $39,663.

Among those charged were a couple, Godfrey Liew Kok Hon, 39, and his Chinese national wife, You Baolan, 26, who is a Singapore permanent resident.

Liew allegedly conspired with Su, Pan Weida Pepin, 31, and Tan Eng Chui, 42, to defraud NTUC by submitting his particulars as the driver of a car which was involved in an accident with another car. Through his false submission, he induced NTUC into paying a total of $23,584 in three claims.

You faces one charge of dishonestly inducing NTUC to process a third party bodily injury claim of $21,795 by lying that she was a passenger in her husband's car at the time of the accident along Upper Thomson Road on 22^nd April 2009.