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Seeing that his friend needed help to pass a driving theory test, a man got someone to pose as his friend to do it on his behalf.
Yesterday, Ng Chai, 62, was sentenced to four weeks in jail after pleading guilty to being an accessory to a crime of cheating by impersonation.
The court heard that Ng and his friend, Tan Chai Meng, 52, were chatting in a coffee shop sometime in 2019.
Mr. Tan had worked as a truck driver, but was unable to work long hours because he was receiving chemotherapy for stomach cancer.
Then Ng suggested that Tan work as a private rental car driver, but Tan said he could not pass the Private Rental Car Driver Vocational License (PDVL) test as he was not fluent in English. The PDVL test consists of two theoretical articles.
Ng offered to take the test for him, but later realized that he couldn’t do it as he had previously been caught trying to take the test for someone else, Deputy Prosecutor Benedict Teong said.
As such, he reached out to another friend, Mr. Ho Yow Peng, 59, for help, and Mr. Ho agreed.
On January 2, Ng passed Mr. Tan’s personal identification items to Mr. Ho.
When Mr. Ho was taking the test later that day, the evaluator noticed that Mr. Ho looked different from the photographs on his identity card and driver’s license.
Mr. Ho only responded to Mr. Tan’s name for the third time and did not make any eye contact.
When asked, he insisted that it was Mr. Tan.
When he returned for the second test, Mr. Ho told the tester that he looked different from the photograph on Mr. Tan’s NRIC, as he had lost some weight due to a serious car accident.
Mr. Tan was confronted the next day when he returned to request a hard copy of his PDVL test result as Mr. Ho failed the second test.
A police report was made.
DPP Teong asked for at least two months in jail, claiming that Ng had played a key role in the conspiracy as a mastermind.
While noting that Ng had not acted for personal gain, he added that Ng had been banned by the Land Transportation Authority after he was caught trying to take the test on someone else’s behalf.
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