An analyst in a monetary service company was unhappy and unable to concentrate on his work after learning his partner had cheated on him.
Willing to go to work, the 29-year-old Singaporean forged his father’s death document so he could get paid loss leave.
After pleading guilty to forgery under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act on Wednesday ( Feb. 5 ), Barath Gopal received a$ 4, 000 ( US$ 3, 000 ) fine.
Gopal, according to the court, may have taken more than four weeks of monthly left at the time.
But he requested loss leave on November 8, 2023, telling the crew leader that his grandfather had passed away in the middle of the night.
He was granted three times of loss leave until Nov 10, 2023 , – the greatest number of days allowed under his company’s coverage.
Later that month, Gopal’s firm asked him to make his grandfather’s dying certificate to help his leave software.
He lied that his father’s death document would only be issued after his or her arrival from India on November 27, 2023.
The team leader of Gopal’s death certificate told him to send the death certificate by the following day on December 7, 2023.
Instead, Gopal emailed the wife of one of his companions who passed away in July 2023.
He lied to his wife that he needed his friend’s death certificate to support his time off from work because he had attended the funeral and asked for it.
He downloaded a smooth copy of the document and uploaded it to a PDF processing game where he changed the report fields.
He replaced his brother’s private information with his father’s. Additionally, he included a phony certificate number, the date, the time and place of death, and the death’s cause as cardiovascular failure.
Gopal gave a partial copy of the forged license to his team president on December 11, 2023. He purposefully omitted a QR code from the document’s base.
Gopal’s team president requested a complete copy of the document, which Gopal sent to him without the QR code, so the team leader requested that Gopal show it.
Gopal quit his job a week later because he was aware that the company may discover the fake diploma at some point.
He left before the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority could verify the authenticity of the file with his boss.
Gopal’s business lost near to S$ 500 ( US$ 370 ), which Gopal received from the paid loss leave.
The punishment for forging a dying, conception or pregnancy license is up to 10 years in jail, a fine of up to S$ 10, 000, or both.