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Singapore sentences Indonesian tourist to 4 months’ jail for encashing tickets he found on casino floor
- While trying to clear immigration to board a flight back to Indonesia, he was flagged as being on a stop list for taking the slot-machine tickets
- He picked up the tickets after a casino worker had accidentally dropped them, encashed them for US$17,900 and remitted US$11,680
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When Silitonga Andri Parulian, 27, spotted eight slot machine tickets with a total face value of S$24,000 (US$17,900) lying on the floor at Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands Casino, he was quick to act.
The tickets, which can be used to play slot machines or encashed for their face value, had fallen out of a staff member’s ticket folder near the entrance to the invitation-only Ruby Room, where Silitonga was about to gamble.
The Indonesian tourist picked up the tickets, then encashed them all at the casino, before heading to Changi Airport to try to flee the country that night.
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Silitonga was sentenced to four months’ jail on Monday after pleading guilty to a single charge of dishonestly misappropriating money.
State Prosecuting Officer Lim Yeow Leong told the court that on March 26, a Marina Bay Sands Casino slot-machine ambassador was carrying a folder full of the slot machine tickets as she was about to enter the Ruby Room.
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