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A WOMAN was fined $24,000 on Tuesday after she admitted to dishonestly misappropriating about $61,000 from her former employer.
The court fined her $2,000 on each of the 12 counts she pleaded guilty to.
Lim Siew Lan, 33, was working as a manager with PrettiSlim Pacific at Pacific Plaza at Scotts Road when she took the money between October 2003 and April 2004. PrettiSlim deals in slimming and breast enhancement treatments.
Lim, who now works as a senior operations manager with another slimming saloon, has paid back $85,000 to her previous employer - more than the amount she took.
A district court heard that a director of PrettiSlim was told in March 2004 of discrepancies in the company's accounts.
A forensic audit check showed 35 individual cases of misappropriation by Lim.
She had manipulated carbon copies of receipts and issued them to other customers with a different amount. The prosecution proceeded on 12 counts of misappropriation of $42,750 between December 2003 and April 2004. Twenty-three other charges were taken into consideration.
Her lawyer, Mr Abraham Vergis, asked for a fine instead of a jail sentence saying the sums taken were not high.
He said Lim had used the money to pay for her ailing father's medical expenses in Malaysia, and since then, her father had died.
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