An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
By Ian Poh
Under pressure from her estranged husband for money, a clinic employee stole almost 500 litres of codeine-based cough syrup for him to resell illegally.
Chen Ruzhen handed over a total of 482.6 litres of Dhasedyl syrup to Yam Bin Kwee on 12 occasions in 2011 and 2012, receiving between $400 and $600 in return each time.
The 40-year-old was jailed for 16 weeks yesterday for dishonestly misappropriating the syrup, worth $4,593.93, and selling it to Yam to "help him in his business".
She pleaded guilty to eight proceeded charges in all, comprising four counts each under the Penal Code and Medicines Act respectively.
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