Shell heist: Man who received up to S$2.3mil for role in crime gets more than 16 years’ jail


Cai Zhi Zhong identified tanks from which gas oil could be misappropriated. - ST

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): A man who worked with his then colleagues at oil giant Shell to misappropriate gas oil worth more than US$93 million (S$127 million, according to court documents) was on Thursday (Oct 20) sentenced to 16 years and three months’ jail.

Cai Zhi Zhong, now 39, committed the offences from August 2014 to January 2018 when he was a process technician at the firm, receiving between US$1.3 million and US$1.6 million.

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