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Ex-Cortina Watch Employee Pleads Guilty to S$495,000 Fraud Using Staff Purchase Scheme

Sentencing is set for early February with prosecutors seeking 58 to 67 months in jail.

Overview

  • Soh Jian Kun, 33, admitted to four amalgamated cheating charges, with 13 additional charges to be considered at sentencing.
  • He defrauded 14 victims of S$494,583 between September 2024 and July 2025 by offering hard-to-get Rolex and Patek Philippe watches.
  • Prosecutors said he forged company forms and receipts and fabricated messages posing as colleagues to sustain the deception.
  • The offenses were driven by heavy credit card and moneylender debt, and he planned but failed to run a Ponzi-style refund cycle.
  • He has repaid S$13,000 so far, resigned from Cortina Watch, cooperated with investigators, and restitution claims will be addressed at sentencing.