By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent

THE former boss of a landscape company was spared a jail term because of ill health and fined $42,000 instead over a 'phantom worker'' scam.

Toh Eng Hock alias Toh Ah Hook, 69, then a director of Toh Eng Hock Construction, admitted to 14 of 28 charges of falsely declaring the number of Singaporeans the company employed in September 2007.

Investigations showed that about 99 of more than 200 Singaporeans had never been employed by the company.

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