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SINGAPORE – A former school director, who was assisted by her tutors to help six students cheat on their jobs during the 2016 Level O exams, was sentenced to four years in jail on Wednesday (September 16) .
The director of the now-defunct Zeus Education Center, Poh Yuan Nie, 54, and two former guardians, his niece Fiona Poh Min, 33, and Feng Riwen, 28, were found guilty of 27 counts of cheating on July 7. .
District Judge Chay Yuen Fatt convicted the trio after a trial. They committed the crimes multiple times in October 2016.
On Wednesday, Fiona Poh was sentenced to three years in jail, while Feng was sentenced to two years and four months in jail.
A fourth offender, 34-year-old former guardian Tan Jia Yan, was sentenced to three years in jail last year for his role in the scheme.
Tan, who used to work at the educational center at 34 Tampines Street, pleaded guilty in April 2018 to 27 counts of cheating. All three women are Singaporean, while Feng is a Chinese national.
Prosecutors had previously stated in their filings that Poh Yuan Nie, also known as Pony, was paid $ 8,000 per student by Mr. Dong Xin, another Chinese national, to provide tuition to young people to help them pass exams and enter the local polytechnics.
Assistant prosecutors Vadivalagan Shanmuga and Cheng Yuxi had told the court that she had planned the plan, while her accomplices “would do nothing without going through her.”
A few hours before each exam, Fiona Poh, Tan, and Feng helped tape communication devices on the students.
The students then attended the exams with these devices attached to their bodies, carefully concealed by their clothing.
Tan also took the exams as a private candidate and used the FaceTime app on her phone to present a live feed of the questionnaires to co-defendants stationed at the registration center.
His accomplices then worked on the questions that were relayed to them. After that, Feng and the others called for the students to read the answers to them.
Poh Yuan Nie supervised the entire process, the court heard.
Tan and Fiona Poh reserved their roles for math test 2 as Tan was better at the subject.
The DPPs had stated that this criminal hoax was successful in three documents from October 19 to 21, 2016.
But it was exposed on October 24 of that year when an alert supervisor heard “unusual electronic transmissions and voices” coming from one of the students.
After the exam, the student was taken to an office where he was handed devices, including Bluetooth receivers and a headset.
He also clearly stated how the deception was carried out.
For each count of cheating, an offender can be jailed for up to three years and fined.
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