A Filipino maid was jailed nine months on Monday in a Singapore court after admitting to receiving stolen cash in her bank account in 2014 from a man she met on a dating website.
Shirley Navarrete Nalangan, 52, had earlier pleaded guilty to one count of dishonestly receiving stolen property by accepting cash in her bank account.
In August 2012, Nalangan, who began work as a domestic worker in Singapore in 1990, met Albert Analdez through a dating website, The Straits Times reported.
Analdez told Nalangan that he was from Kentucky in the United States, the Times said. The duo had chatted about “intimate topics” and marriage through the internet.
In October 2013, Analdez asked Nalangan to receive some funds as payment to a financing company in Malaysia for him to get his profits from his engineering project. He asked the Filipina to withdraw the funds from her bank account and send the money to an employee at the financing company.
Despite raising concerns over the source of the cash, Nalangan still gave the man her bank account details and US$105,000 was deposited on January 2, 2014. The money was stolen from a Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) account under the name of Fahmi El Hosseny.
Nalangan later remitted S$4,000 (US$2,989) through Western Union to a woman in Malaysia. She was arrested by the police.
Ng Boon Gan, a lawyer representing Nalangan pro bono, pleaded for a lighter penalty. The maximum penalty for dishonestly receiving stolen property is a five-year jail term and a fine.
The judge was also considering another count of removing criminal property from the jurisdiction.
Kapag kasamaan "Filipino" agad ang umpisa. Kapag kabutihan d nababanggit nationality. Opinion lang.
Agreed. Un lng ung Nkkta nila
yong lalaki nagnakaw bakit yong pi.ay parusahan …biktima nga pinay
Biktima na lang tayo lagi mga pilipino…
Hindi dapat basta basta magtitiwala. Lalo na nd mo kilala pa.Marami ganyan sa social media.
Do not trust someone whom u only 0meet
In internet
Correct iba kasi ang dali madala sa salapi kahit sa kasamaan manggaling.
Panu makasuhan yong lalaki eh nsa US nga daw at dipa cla nagkita through online lang.kaya nga ginamit lang sya ng lalaki sa para sa perang ninakaw nya..modus yon bka nga negro lang ka chat nya.
kc po mababait tayo pinoy,,,bad or good sa atin..kawawa naman.. God look at the heart and mind of the he created
D nman cguro alam ni kabayan na ninakaw ung perang ipinadala sa kanya..ang siste bakit xa lmg ang my penalty..dapat ung sender
Due to trust at kasal thru net,kaya nagtiwala ang pinay, the man gave reason where he gets d money,thats why c pinay still trust p din.. Dpt pti c foreigner kasuhan,,,my opinion… Ingat nlng po mga kabayan:-)
Scam
never trust anyone in cyber whatever look like innocent….but mostly are fake
True yan
Ang the best jan wag magtiwala sa hinde mo kilala ng personal 🙂
Bakit nga ba pag filipino ang may mali grabe ang pagbabnggit pero pag ibang lahi simply lang parang wala lang…dapat nga yong lalaki ang kasuhan kc sya ang gumawa…
Hala kaibigan ko siya sa fb
di naman niya ninakaw ang pera …it’s a gift…bigay sa kanya yon…almost 5 milion yon kung USD…
Oo tama ka kabayan yung nag received ang mahuli agad dhil mati Trace nila money laundering ang tawag jan
That’s money loundering bawal talaga yan
Antagal n ng news n ito..
Nkalabas nila para sirain mga Pinay..
First of all why this fellow Filipina any how accepred the money she should smart to think about it. How could so easy to recieve money from someone whom you don’t know well yet? Well, this is a lesson to the rest of the people.