4 PIOs jailed for staging robbery in Singapore

Four Indian-origin persons who staged a fake police raid to rob 3 Indian nationals of more than SGD 1.3 million in a major robbery incident here in <g data-gr-id="26">2012,</g> were today jailed for up to 10-and-a-half years.

Music teacher Magesan Ramasamy, Mohamed Faizal <g data-gr-id="19">Ajmalhan</g>, who works in finance, Arunachalam Lakshmanan, and <g data-gr-id="20">Chinnaya</g> Antony Samy will also be given the maximum 24 strokes of the cane, media reported.

The four convicted were each jailed between 10 years and 10 years and six months after a 29-day trial of gang robbery at a lodging house at Dunlop Street in the Little India shopping precinct on September 10, 2012.

Magesan and Faizal had also faced three charges of posing as police officers. They forced their way into the rooms of three businessmen and demanded their passports that day. Pretending to be cops, they restrained their victims with <g data-gr-id="18">flexi</g>-cuffs and ordered them to sit or kneel, before taking about SGD 1.27 million from them.

Arunachalam and <g data-gr-id="17">Chinnaya</g>, both Indian nationals kept a lookout in the street. The two men had provided the rest of the gang with information about the victims, whom they believed were involved in illegal money remittance.