Charity con artist convicted

Another bad news about people getting money from a charity organisation.

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_412841.html

"A MAN in his early 20s who set up a network of charities, only to con the public of more than $100,000, was convicted on Tuesday.

The con artist, Rajendren Rajamani, 26, who helped himself to $47,300 of the donations, will be sentenced on Thursday.

Earlier on Wednesday, Rajendren pleaded with the judge for a non-excessive sentence that would not have a 'crushing effect'.

In mitigation, he claimed he was so moved by the poverty he had witnessed on a trip to India as a 12-year-old that he was compelled to start a charity.

In 2005, he set up three charities supposedly to help disadvantaged children here.

But it turned out to be an elaborate scheme to get the public, another charity, and even his parents to part with their money."

I say : Sickening.