A Singaporean man was fined SGD4,000 (RM13,138) after he pleaded guilty to 1 count of forging a death certificate with the intent to commit fraud.
According to a report by The Straits Times, 29-year-old Barath Gopal forged a death certificate in order to gain 3 days of compassionate leave from his previous job as a security financing operations analyst, after his girlfriend had cheated on him.
Despite having more than 4 days of annual leave available, the man decided to lie to his supervisor that his grandfather had passed away and asked for paid compassionate leave.
After granting the leave, his supervisor asked him to submit his grandfather’s death certificate, to which Barath informed him he could only get it after his father returned from a trip to India.
He used a friend’s death cert
He then gained a copy of a friend’s death certificate, which he received from a relative after telling the relative he needed it to explain his absence from work to attend the friend’s funeral.
Barath apparently used the friend’s death certificate to create a forgery on his laptop and sent a photo of a part of the certificate to his supervisor, making sure that the QR verification code on the certificate was left out.
He only sent the fully forged document to his supervisor upon insistence and resigned when his offence was discovered.
For forging a death certificate, he could have been fined up to $10,000 (RM32,846), jailed for up to 10 years, or both.
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