SINGAPORE: A 54-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly stealing US$80,000 (S$107,000) in cash from a passenger on board a flight from Hong Kong to Singapore, the police said on Wednesday (Mar 6).
The passenger discovered that the cash was missing from his bag after he disembarked at Changi Airport on Tuesday.
“Preliminary investigations revealed that the victim had placed his bag in the overhead compartment but did not see (a) suspicious person rummaging through his bag,” the Singapore Police Force (SPF) said in a news release.
Airport Police Division officers followed up using flight records and worked together with officers from SPF’s Commercial Affairs Department to establish the man’s identity.
The authorities found that the man had purportedly made four remittance transactions amounting to S$37,897.70, believed to be part of the stolen cash, at People’s Park Complex in Chinatown.
