Man accused of using fake $1,000 notes

• Gus.chong

  19 Nov 11, 16:04

  A FORMER fitness trainer has been charged with using fake $1,000 notes in what is believed to be Singapore's first such case.

  Mahathir Ramli, 27, is said to have used six of the notes to buy an iPhone 4, three iPads and a MacBook Pro laptop.

  He bought them in three separate deals, according to charges that were brought up for mention on Thursday in a district court. The first took place in March, when he met three people separately in Hougang and Guillemard Road early one morning, giving them three $1,000 notes.

  Mahathir is also alleged to have paid another victim for electronic gadgets using two of the fake notes in April at the open carpark at Newton Food Centre.

  He used another of the bills to buy a MacBook in Ang Mo Kio the following month.

  Two more were found in his possession in June. A police investigation is expected to show how the forged notes were made.

  Mahathir, who is now jobless, is also accused of misappropriating an iPhone 4 belonging to a victim in Hougang. And he was found with an ez-link card that was not his, plus a forged identity card, the court heard.

  If convicted of the 11 charges, he could be jailed for up to 20 years and fined. He was released on $50,000 bail, and will be back in court next month.

  (Taken from The Straits Times, Saturday, November 19 2011, Page B6)

• Auroras

  20 Nov 11, 10:47

   is believed to be Singapore's first such case.

   

  true??

• Rock^Star

  20 Nov 11, 12:15

  That is so stupid.

• FireIce

  20 Nov 11, 12:23

  i wanna know which printer he using.

• TehJarVu

  20 Nov 11, 13:19

  Mahathir, who is now jobless lol

• troublemaker2005

  20 Nov 11, 22:28

  Originally posted by FireIce:

  i wanna know which printer he using.

  
  more like what paper he using. one feel know its fake.

• benqepson

  21 Nov 11, 08:21

  he can be a fitness instructor in CP. His talent will not be wasted.

• Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1)

  21 Nov 11, 16:03

  wow?
  
  
  tis guy is a stupid?
  
  

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  21 Nov 11, 16:40

  His name Mahathir reminds me of someone upnorth

   

  Fake $2 got, fake $50 also got news...

  Fake $1k now... when will ppl try fake $10k???  

• mancha

  21 Nov 11, 16:49

  Get iPhone plus change.

  Now will get how much, I wonder.

• troublemaker2005

  24 Nov 11, 22:07

  maybe judge will give lighter sentence if he bought food with the money. but buy iphone? losers

• Gus.chong

  28 Nov 11, 20:26

  Originally posted by mancha:

  Get iPhone plus change.

  Now will get how much, I wonder.

  Then the people will not be cheated of just the things he sell but also the money.