By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent

A BUSINESSWOMAN who was once a tai tai was convicted on Wednesday of employing maids to clean her office.

Avatar Ng Ngah Len, 54, a director of Quakes Agency, a general insurance agency, was found guilty of employing three Indonesians and a Filipino maid during varying periods in 2006 and 2007 to clean the office, initially at Textile Centre in Jalan Sultan and later at Tanjong Pagar Road.

She was convicted of breaching the conditions of the maids' work permits which stated that they could only do domestic and household chores at her home.

For more The Straits Times stories, click here.