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Former Shell Employee Jailed for 16 Years in Singapore Missing MGO Case
A former Shell employee is the latest person to receive a jail sentence in the ongoing cases over misappropriation of MGO from the energy producer's Singapore refinery over several years.
Tiah Kok Hwee, a former process technician at Shell, was sentenced to 16 years and four months of jail at a Singapore court on Tuesday, local news provider the Straits Times reported.
He had pleaded guilty to 20 counts of criminal breach of trust involving nearly $69 million, as well as four counts of dealing with the benefits of criminal conduct involving more than $4.2 million.
More than 200,000 mt of MGO was allegedly misappropriated from Shell's Pulau Bukom refinery between 2014 and 2018. Shell first reported the missing fuel to the police in August 2017.
