PLANS TO COMBAT COMPUTER CRIME

The only case reported to the Commercial Crime Division took place sometime in 1979. A female bankteller from the DBS intentionally prevented the printing of 2 non-financial transactions by slipping a piece of paper into a printer through the gap of the transparent window in front of a journal roll. The transactions were for the transformation of entry information of 2 account holders into the computer via the teller's terminal. Subsequently, the teller withdrew cash on two separate occasions from the two accounts using passbooks which she had misappropriated. She was prosecuted for 2 counts of Forgery for the Purpose of Cheating under Section 468 of the Penal Code, Chapter 103 and was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment in respect of each charge, the sentences to run concurrently.