A Singapore citizen was fined $4,000 after it was found that he forged his grandfather's death certificate to get leave.
Barath Gopal, a 29-year-old financial analyst, discovered that his girlfriend was unfaithful to him. Unable to contain his grief, he decided to apply for leave from his company.
Instead of applying for annual leave, however, Gopal told his supervisor that his grandfather had died in his sleep and requested three days of paid bereavement leave.
The company approved his leave and even paid out $500 during those days.
Barath's plan started to fall apart when his supervisor requested a copy of his grandfather's death certificate to go along with the leave application. Barath stalled saying that he couldn't get the death certificate until his father returned from India at the end of the month.
When the supervisor asked for a death certificate once again the following month, Barath decided to try and forge the death certificate.
He approached the stepmother of a friend who had died recently and asked her for his death certificate. He then edited the death certificate using a PDF editor to change the date, name, gender, and cause of death.
Barath then handed in the death certificate after intentionally removing the QR code at the end of the document. But his supervisor later asked him for the entire document.
Realising that his lie was about to be exposed, Barath resigned from his company.
Once the company realised the death certificate was forged, they sued Barath, who later pleaded guilty to forgery under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act.
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