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Deliveryman disregards driving ban, deceives firms into hiring him while posing as another man

SINGAPORE — A delivery attendant who was banned from driving for four years in January 2017 pretended to be someone else so he could still work with various firms, the court heard on Friday (July 5).

Assuming his ex-colleague’s identity, Muhammad Ashiq Mohd Jamaluddin got hired for a delivery job that paid him more than S$5,000 for 1.5 months’ work.

Assuming his ex-colleague’s identity, Muhammad Ashiq Mohd Jamaluddin got hired for a delivery job that paid him more than S$5,000 for 1.5 months’ work.

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SINGAPORE — A delivery attendant who was banned from driving for four years in January 2017 pretended to be someone else so he could still work with various firms, the court heard on Friday (July 5).

Eight months into the ban, Muhammad Ashiq Mohd Jamaluddin, a Singaporean, used a copy of his former colleague’s driving licence and identity card to get himself a job.

His ex-colleague, Mr Sateesh Marimuthu, handed over the documents because he thought Ashiq was using them to apply for a delivery job on his behalf. 

With the documents, Ashiq managed to get a job delivering for online supermarket Redmart under the firm’s subcontractor, Falcon Trans Agency, which paid him S$5,141.40 for his work from mid-November to December 2017.

He also secured another job with Sally Express Company in March last year, after filing a police report about the loss of an IC and driving licence while pretending to be Mr Sateesh.

This was so that the company could see why he could not produce the original documents.

However, he continued to drive carelessly while working on the job. Footage from a driver's in-car camera showed him making a sharp turn and mounting the centre divider once, and speeding along the Central Expressway in another instance.

On Friday, Ashiq, 25, pleaded guilty to 16 charges: Nine counts of cheating, four counts of cheating by personation, two counts of driving while under disqualification, and one count of theft in dwelling.

The offences were committed while he was banned from driving.

MORE CHEATING OFFENCES

Ashiq faced 40 more charges, such as attempted cheating, furnishing false information, and inconsiderate driving.

These will be taken into consideration during sentencing on July 10.

Many of these charges were related to cheating.

The court heard that Ashiq moved out of his mother’s home to stay with his girlfriend in December 2017, but returned that month to steal three Citibank credit cards from a drawer.

The cards belonged to his brother Haji Muhammad Mohd Jamaluddin, who was not home at the time.

Ashiq then used the cards to make 31 unauthorised transactions totalling S$5,774.

About two months later in February last year, his brother was on holiday in Australia when he discovered that his cards were stolen.

The unauthorised transactions were to pay for six hotel room stays, a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge mobile phone, three gold chains, bottles of perfume, food, drinks, apparel, packets of cigarettes, and fuel.

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