SINGAPORE: A 30-year-old man was charged on Thursday ( Feb 6 ) with stealing US$ 885 ( S$ 1, 200 ) in cash from a passenger on a Scoot flight.
Zhang Youqi, a Taiwanese national, is accused of the robbery on board aircraft TR813 from Jeju to Singapore on Tuesday.
supposedly between 8o’clock and 1o’clock in the afternoon, he reportedly took the money from a drawstring pocket inside a backpack.
Prior to the police’s claim, studies revealed that a customer witnessed the gentleman touching her bag in the overhead compartment.
The customer opened her bag and confronted the person. She discovered that a stack of US money was missing and believed he had taken her income.
After the airplane landed at Changi Airport, officials from the Airport Police Division investigated.
They discovered the missing money in another bandwidth room with the assistance of the cabin crew. During the event, the person had passed through this area of the plane.
Zhang is out on parole of S$ 10, 000. His case will be heard once more on February 13.
The crime of fraud carries a prison term of up to three years, a good, or both.  ,