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SINGAPORE – A serial offender returns to jail for cheating for the third time in eight years after defrauding her victims out of more than $ 900,000, the most she has ever cheated.
Kaveena Jaya Kumar, 42, “had difficulty staying out of the crime” and “had no qualms about repeating it,” said Deputy Prosecutor Tan Zhi Hao.
She was last released in October 2015 and returned to her old ways in August 2016.
Between 2016 and 2018, he tricked 95 victims with cash totaling more than $ 900,000.
The Singaporean, who appeared in district court via video link on Monday (December 21), was sentenced to six years and four months in jail after she pleaded guilty to 35 counts of cheating involving more than $ 600,000.
The recalcitrant offender also admitted that he had misappropriated more than $ 15,000 that a woman had entrusted to him.
During the sentencing, a further 154 fraud charges related to the remaining amount were taken into consideration.
To earn some money after her release from prison in October 2015, Kaveena purchased admission tickets to local attractions at a travel agency before reselling them on the Carousell online marketplace.
The DPP said the profit it made at the time was “marginal.” He then decided to buy the tickets in bulk from travel agencies, but did not make any payments. He would then sell the tickets and keep the full amount received.
The court heard that he misled the travel agencies by delivering checks from his personal bank account. However, Kaveena did not intend to pay these checks.
He also misled companies by sending screenshots of alleged bank transfers scheduled for later dates.
She was captured and charged in court on December 3, 2016. She continued to reoffend after she was released on bail a week later.
Around April 2017, Kaveena owed unlicensed lenders cash totaling about $ 100,000.
To pay off her debts, she decided to start an event planning and flower arrangement business called The Royal Petals.
DPP Tan said: “As she ‘owed a lot of money’ and was unable to pay her debts, the defendant decided to use The Royal Petals as a front to perpetrate an airline ticket scam instead.
In late 2017, he lied to his clients, claiming that he could get plane tickets at lower prices than those offered by travel agencies.
He tricked them into paying him even though he didn’t have cheap airline tickets to sell.
To sustain her scam, Kaveena used the money she received from customers to buy full-price airline tickets and fulfill some of the orders. This could entice customers to make more purchases or invite loved ones to buy tickets for you.
The DPP said: “In order to convince her customers that her airline ticket sales were legitimate, the defendant issued invoices and letters to confirm purchases on The Royal Petals letterhead.”
“The victims only realized they were misled when they sought to verify their departure details with the airlines or when they arrived at airports to check in, and were informed by the airlines that no reservations had been made in their name.”
Kaveena finally became uncontactable to all of her clients. She was captured again and held for investigations on June 7, 2018. Her bond was revoked 11 days later. Since then, he has managed to reimburse more than $ 45,000 to his victims.
The court heard that Kaveena was sentenced to 26 months in jail in April 2012 on nine counts of cheating involving more than $ 55,000.
In April 2014, she was sentenced to three years in jail after being found guilty of five counts of cheating related to more than $ 73,000.
For each count of cheating, an offender can be jailed for up to 10 years and fined.
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