Man charged with forging death certificates of 3 people to get compassionate leave
The 30-year-old Singaporean man allegedly forged physical and digital death certificates of three people in order to get compassionate leave.
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SINGAPORE: A man was charged on Wednesday (Aug 14) with forging death certificates of three people in order to get compassionate leave.
Nawwar Aisar Sardali, a 30-year-old Singaporean man, was handed four counts under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act of forging death certificates to commit fraud.
According to charge sheets, he first made a death cert sometime before Oct 7, 2022, pertaining to a Abdul Halim Abdul.
The document was dated Sep 28, 2022 and was meant to deceive a person named Astilla Angelito Bourbon Dean into granting Nawwar compassionate leave.
The second charge states that Nawwar forged a death cert for a Abdul Baba dated Mar 29, 2023, in order to deceive a Ryun Ong Wee Lun into granting him compassionate leave.
Nawwar also allegedly forged a death cert for a Kasmani Harun dated Jul 12, 2023, along with an accompanying digital death cert, in order to be granted compassionate leave by Ryun Ong Wee Lun.
Nawwar said he wished to plead guilty but he was unsure if he would be engaging a lawyer.
He said his wife would be his bailor, but that he needed to call her and that she was at work.
If convicted of forging a death certificate, he can be jailed for up to 10 years, fined up to S$10,000 (US$7,600), or both per charge.
This is the second time in as many weeks that a person has been charged over a forged death certificate.
A 37-year-old woman was charged on Aug 8 with using a forged death certificate to obtain compassionate leave, along with forging medical certificates.
