By Esther Tan

ON PAPER, a River Valley Road restaurant was listed as having 40 Singaporeans on its payroll.

But three of those employees never showed up for work or collected their salaries. Nor were they likely to create trouble - because they were already dead.

Yesterday, their boss Sambnani Anil Pritamdas, 34, was jailed six months after being convicted on six charges of making false declarations about the number of Singaporeans hired as well as one of instigating his brother, a silent partner of the restaurant, to make a false declaration.

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