SINGAPORE: An assistant manager at a maid agency got clients to make payments to his personal PayNow account after renaming the digital payment account so it looked as if it belonged to his company. Over about five months, Malaysian Chai Song Lin siphoned off more than S$92,000 (US$71,500) from his company in this manner. Chai, 45, was eventually caught when his superior confronted him about the discrepancy between his high sales records and the relatively low income he had generated for the company. Chai was sentenced to 20 months and two weeks’ jail on Monday (Jan 5). He pleaded guilty to one charge of cheating, covering 72 occasions between mid-September 2024 and early March 2025. The court heard that Chai was employed as an assistant manager at 1st Allbest Human Resource from about June 2022 to March 2025. The agency provided foreign domestic worker services, and Chai was responsible for engaging clients, selling the company’s services to them and directing them to pay the deposit and processing fees for the maids the clients wished to …