Singaporean who defaulted on NS obligations used fake Malaysian passports at checkpoints over 800 times


Low Eng Kheng was sentenced to eight months and 18 weeks’ jail after pleading guilty to five charges under the Immigration Act. -- ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): A Singaporean who was trying to avoid his national service (NS) obligations in the 1990s used fake Malaysian passports to enter and exit the Republic to conceal his identity from the authorities.

Over a span of five years from 2006 to 2011, Low Eng Kheng, 60, used the fake passports 876 times at various checkpoints in Singapore.

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