Rasman Saridin has been charged with misappropriating around S$60,000 from students. The former religious teacher who reportedly misappropriated close to S$60,000 from students along with people who bought pilgrimage tour packages was charged on 06 April 2022, Wednesday for several crimes. The religious teacher who has been identified as Rasman Saridin is accused of misappropriating S$27,900 from 5 students between 2014 and 2017.
Rasman was slapped with seven counts of criminal violating of trust, one count of falsification with the intention of cheating, two counts of traveling out of Singapore without the permission of the Assignee, and one count of managing a company as a discharged bankrupt. The crime of criminal violation of trust carries a jail term of around seven years.
In the year 2019, he also allegedly misappropriated over S$32,000 from people who paid for pilgrimage tour packages. The police said, “He also allegedly forged an air ticket booking between Singapore and Jeddah (Saudi Arabia),” The teacher is accused of moving out of Singapore on several occasions between June 2018 and November 2019 as an undischarged bankrupt, without getting a permit from an official Assignee which administrators the events of a bankrupt.