The single mother, who inherited her friend's loan shark debt, stole her employer's luxury watches and jewellery.
SINGAPORE: A single mother who came to Singapore to work as a maid to support her family was dragged into loan shark harassment because of a friend.Indonesian national Maya Amara Putri, 40, was sentenced to 21 months and one week's jail on Tuesday .
However, in 2022, Maya agreed to a friend's request to let her use her work permit to borrow money from a moneylender. In March 2023, she saw her boss' Patek Philippe watch on the basin of the master bedroom toilet and stole it. She pawned it off for S$6,000 on her day off.When Maya's employer realised his watch was missing, he confronted his two helpers about it. Maya admitted to stealing it and her employer called the police.
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