Overview

• On August 4 a Singapore court sentenced Kapadia Husain Zoher to 18 days in jail and his wife, Kapadia Amatullah, to one week after both pleaded guilty to theft.
• CCTV captured the couple on June 23 taking a Dior Sauvage perfume and a Louis Vuitton credit card holder valued at about $160 and $600 from Changi Airport shops.
• Airport police detained the pair moments before their Mumbai-bound flight departed after reviewing the surveillance footage.
• Authorities quickly recovered the stolen goods and returned them to the retailers.
• The offenders, an American dentist and his engineer wife en route to Mumbai, represent a rare case of airport shoplifting in a city-state renowned for its low crime rate.