A Singaporean influencer with 334,000 Instagram followers was sentenced to 32 months and one week in jail on March 19, 2025. Chin Tung Sheng, 26, pleaded guilty to seven charges on March 7, 2025. He had been in remand since December 2023.
Chin stole Louis Vuitton items worth $200,000 from a Sentosa bungalow between November and December 2023. He gained access by using the door passcode or through a backdoor he had unlocked during house viewings.
He sold the stolen goods online or through luxury resellers to pay his debts. No items have been returned to date.
In July 2022, Chin stayed at Amara Sanctuary Resort Sentosa for 13 days without paying the $13,200 bill. He showed the receptionist a fake PayNow transaction photo and forged bank documents.
District Judge Kenneth Chin called him a “prolific fraudster” who planned his crimes carefully, noting how he visited the Sentosa bungalow multiple times while pretending to be interested in renting it.
Between August 2020 and April 2021, Chin created over 25 different membership accounts at ION Orchard. He submitted fake payment receipts to collect points, which he exchanged for shopping vouchers worth $76,900.
Staff became suspicious when they noticed all receipts were photographs of electronically created receipts, mostly from a specific Louis Vuitton cash register.
In 2020, Chin forged bank documents showing he had $1.8 billion and $16.9 million to convince potential business partners of his financial strength.
He also altered a letter from the Prime Minister’s Office to make it appear addressed to him personally, thanking him for helping Singapore provide medical supplies during COVID-19.
Chin created 26 separate emails and 27 mobile numbers for his schemes.
He cheated a food delivery rider of $63 by forging a PayNow receipt. The judge rejected the defense’s suggestion that this offense warranted only one day in jail, instead imposing a week’s jail term.
The prosecution asked for 35 to 44 months’ jail, pointing to Chin’s persistent offending and lack of remorse.
Judge Chin said the sentence was fair given the multiple offenses. He expressed hope that Chin would learn from this experience, to which Chin replied he had learned his lesson.
