Police have arrested two women, age 23 and 21, for their suspected involvement in loanshark harassment.
On 26 July 2015 at about 5.15pm, Police were informed of two women loitering outside a residential unit located along Clementi Avenue 2. Officers from Clementi Division responded to the scene and spotted the two suspects fitting the description provided. The suspects fled upon seeing the officers but one of them was apprehended by our officers. Through follow up investigations, the second suspect was arrested in the vicinity of Toa Payoh Lorong 1 on the same day at about 11.23 pm.
Preliminary investigations revealed that both suspects are believed to be debtor-turned-harassers, who assisted loansharks to carry out harassment. Both suspects are believed to be involved in several cases of loanshark harassment island-wide by locking debtors' units using bicycle locks, splashing paint and scrawling loanshark-related graffiti on the walls.
Both suspects will be charged in Court on 28 July 2015 for loanshark harassment under the Moneylenders Act 2010 (Revised Edition). Under the Moneylenders Act (Revised Edition 2010), first-time offenders found guilty of acting on behalf of an unlicensed moneylender, committing or attempting to commit any acts of harassment shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years, a fine of not less than $5,000 and not more than $50,000, and shall also be liable to caning of not less than 3 and not more than 6 strokes.
SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
27 July 2015 @ 10:15 PM