By Elena Chong
FIVE Indian nationals were charged in a district court on Friday with using fake casino chips.
This is the first case of its kind since Resorts World Sentosa and Marina Bay Sands opened in February and April 2010.
Maqsud Ibrahim, 28, Gurav Vishal Sopan, 26, Shettiyar Kunabalan, 24, Soheel Ahmad Jalih Ahmad, 33 and Asfaq Usman, 25, are each alleged to have used an unknown number of counterfeit chips valued at $1,000 each by exchanging them into smaller denominations of the genuine chips at Marina Bay Sands casino on Thursday.
They were remanded at Central police division lock-up with permission to take them out for investigation.
All five will be back in court next Friday, Jan 7.
If convicted, they face a fine of up to $150,000 and/or a jail term of up to seven years.
haiz..used tax payer money for foreign criminals commit crime in foreign own casino.
just give them 10 strokes and buang them back to India.
What? Are they stupid? I would rather cheat a bank than a casino, coz you can never cheat a casino and get away with it.
Some people cheated and got away, obviously they were just not in the newspaper so you never heard of them.
How does the five accused got their hands on the counterfeit chips?