The Police will be charging four men, aged between 39 and 47, on 1 August 2025 for their alleged involvement in cheating and falsification of accounts offences in relation to Workforce Singapore’s (“WSG”) Professional Conversion Programmes (“PCPs”).
PCPs [1] help mid-career professionals, managers, executives and technicians undergo skills conversion and move into new occupations or sectors with opportunities for progression. The programme provides salary support and course fee subsidies to eligible employers taking on mid-career new hires. The salary support is computed based on the employee’s monthly salary. Supply Chain Asia Community Ltd (“SCA”) is one of programme partners appointed by WSG to administer the PCPs.
The four men to be charged comprise a 45-year-old former director, another 47-year-old director, and two employees, aged 39 and 46, of a wholesale company dealing in computer hardware and peripheral equipment.
Between June 2018 and October 2019, the 45-year-old former director had registered the two said employees for the PCP and allegedly misrepresented to SCA that they were paid the declared monthly salaries in their employment contracts when they were not.
Between April and July 2019, the 47-year-old director had allegedly falsified the payslips of the said employees for submission to SCA.
The 39-year-old employee had allegedly aided the 45-year-old former director by continuing to represent himself as an employee of the company to SCA even after he had resigned from the company. In doing so, he had deceived SCA into continuing to disburse the grant payouts.
The 46-year-old employee is alleged to have conspired with the 45-year-old former director to obtain grant payouts by making CPF contributions to his own account that were commensurate with his inflated salary.
As a result of their actions, SCA disbursed a total of $89,100 as salary support to the company and granted upfront course fee subsidies of $10,010.
If convicted, they face:
- an imprisonment term of up to 10 years and a fine, for each charge of cheating under Section 420 of the Penal Code.
- an imprisonment term of up to 10 years, or a fine, or both for each charge of falsification of accounts under Section 477A of the Penal Code.
The Police take a serious view against the abuse of Government grants and offenders will be dealt with severely in accordance with the law.
[1]: Professional Conversion Programmes (PCPs) were renamed to Career Conversion Programmes (CCPs) in 2021
SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
31 July 2025 @ 5:55 PM