Wong Kuin Wah committed the offences over 45 occasions between August 2014 and January 2018.
SINGAPORE – A bunker clerk helped the Singapore-based company he worked for acquire more than 27,000 tonnes ofaround US$12.82 million in total.
The 61-year-old Singaporean pleaded guilty to 12 counts of facilitating the receipt of the misappropriated fuel before he was sentenced to seven years and six months’ jail on Nov 18. The fuel had been dishonestly misappropriated from Shell Eastern Petroleum’s Pulau Bukom facility by a group of rogue Shell employees.The group had secretly siphoned off more than 200,000 tonnes of gas oil worth more than $120 million between August 2014 and January 2018.
They would also be paid $10 for every tonne of fuel unlawfully received, which would be equally shared between Tan and Wong. Once Sentek 26 was berthed at a wharf on Pulau Bukom, at least one of the rogue Shell employees would board the vessel to provide an estimate of the misappropriated gas oil it would receive alongside the official loading. The bunker clerk on board Sentek 26 would then facilitate the receipt of both the official and illegal loadings.
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