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One was the senior. The other the junior. But the two men behaved less like superior and subordinate and more like comrades-in-crime. During the period when Koh Seah Wee, 41, and Lim Chai Meng, 38, worked together to defraud their employer, the Singapore Land Authority (SLA), they were so close they even went to a property viewing together to decide on whether to invest some of their ill-gotten gains in a condominium apartment each. Koh was then a deputy director and Lim a manager in the statutory board's information technology department. RELATED STORIES * Former SLA officers plead guilty in $12m fraud case * Ex-SLA exec accused of cheating Supreme Court * Duo allegedly cheat SLA of $11.8m * Lamborghini in SLA cheating case sold * 2 SLA officers on probe for $11.8m fraud Yesterday, Koh pleaded guilty to 46 cheating charges and nine money laundering charges involving the SLA and the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (Ipos). He admitted to another 317 similar charges, which will be taken into consideration during sentencing. Lim pleaded guilty to 40 counts of conspiring to cheat the SLA, one count of cheating a finance company and eight counts of money laundering. He also admitted to another 260 similar charges, which will be taken into consideration during sentencing. They might have been close when defrauding their employer, but yesterday, it was clear in court that the duo were no longer chums. Even though they sat less than a metre apart, they barely glanced at each other. Instead, they left it to their lawyers - Mr Ravinderpal Singh for Koh; Mr Subhas Anandan and Mr Sunil Sudheesan for Lim - to push the blame around. The court heard that Koh and Lim, together with seven other accomplices, bled the SLA of about $12.2 million more than two years. Of that amount, about 15 per cent ($1.87 million) went to Lim while more than 70 per cent or ($8.54 million) went to Koh, said Lim's lawyers, Mr Subhas Anandan and Mr Sunil Sudheesan. The remainder was channelled to the other accomplices in the conspiracy. Two have since been jailed. http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNew...030-307747.html

I had just typed a long PM in reply to someone's msg, then after sending I thought there was an error as it did not showed up in the Sent Items. Later I realized that there is this checked box 'Add a copy of... to my sent items folder', which somehow by default is not enabled when replying to PMs. I think it is better that it be checked by default. I thought that is the default actions of many forums and email programs. Some users, like me, will forget or miss out on that box, and after sending out, thought the PM was not sent successfully (I retyped the long message again as I thought it wasn't sent out). Thanks.

For discussion sake & as a follow up to my previous post, may I ask, "What should the mechanic check when we send our cars for servicing?" Once I asked the mechanic, "Will you check this & that?" & the answer was, "Don't worry, we know what we are doing." If so, then why do I keep going back so often with problems & have to get the car checked again & again? Now I worry because I don't know whether I will get to my destination on time or will my car die on me suddenly.