Packs of Pokemon trading cards. (Photo: Bloomberg) SINGAPORE: After being informed by a lady in Singapore that he would get a discountrate on each case of Pokemon cards from his bulk purchase on Carousell, one purchaser paid her close to S$80,000 (US$60,000) in deposits. Another purchaser combined orders from members of the Pokemon TCG Facebook group and paid a deposit amount of S$20,840 (US$15,550). Both purchasers did not get any cards in the end. The female, Koh Jia Wen, 26, was sentenced to 31 months’ prison after pleading guilty on Thursday to 4 counts of unfaithful. She likewise outlined to get brand-new iPhone sets from Singtel by getting somebody to indication membership agreements and did not pay the costs. Thirteen other comparable charges were taken into factortoconsider throughout sentencing. Sometime inbetween 2021 and 2022, Koh utilized her account for e-marketplace Carousell to promote the sale of Pokemon cards, which were normally offered in cases, where each case would hold 6 boxes that consistedof 36 loads of cards each. When interested purchasers called her, she would inform them that the cards had to be pre-ordered and asked them to pay a 50% deposit. Koh would direct them to deposit the cash into numerous bank accounts, none of which belonged to her duetothefactthat she hadactually been blacklisted from opening brand-new bank accounts. Investigations exposed that Koh was not enabled to open any brand-new bank accounts with United Overseas Bank (UOB), OCBC and DBS without more clearance, Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Sean Teh stated. There were no evenmore information on why this was so. A Pokemon card collection. (Photo: Bloomberg) The bank accounts Koh utilized for the purchasers belonged to goodfriends and associates who would withdraw the moved cash after the deals and hand it to her. For one purchaser, for circumstances, he pre-ordered 74 cases from Koh in 2021 a
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