A FORMER bank relationship manager was charged in court on Wednesday with multiple cheating charges involving about $4.9 million and transferring the benefits of his crime to various bank accounts.
Tan Wei Chong, 32, was with OCBC Bank when he allegedly deceived the bank into believing that customers had applied for cashier's orders, presented authorisation to debit forms or withdrawn cash from their accounts when he was allegedly behind them.
He is said to have cheated the bank on 31 occasions between November 2007 and August last year.
The amounts he is said to have cheated ranged from $50,000 to $250,000.
Bail of $1 million was offered to Tan who will be back in court on June 15. If convicted, he faces a jail term of up to 10 years and a fine on each charge of cheating.
Each charge under the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act carries a fine of up to $500,000 and/or a jail term of up to seven years.
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