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Singapore cleaner gets two years for 2-dollar theft
Aug 4, 2011, 6:33 GMT
Singapore - A restaurant cleaner was sentenced to spend two years in a Singapore jail after he broke into his former workplace and stole a cash register containing just 2 Singapore dollars (1.6 US dollars), a media report said Thursday.
A court handed Malaysian Ansar Anwar, 24, the minimum sentence for breaking and entering in the city-state, the online edition of Straits Times newspaper reported.
The cleaner, who pleaded guilty, broke into his former employer's premises on June 28 after failing to find another job, or to borrow money to tie him over, the report said.
He took the cash register away and only discover the poor haul when he broke it open, it said.
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