A man who took a passenger’s luggage on a Singapore Airlines flight from Dubai to Singapore was jailed for 20 months on Tuesday.
Liu Ming, a 26-year-old Chinese national, pleaded guilty to one charge of theft.
The act was financed by a criminal syndicate and Liu had boarded the flight specifically to steal high-value items from business class passengers, the prosecution said.
His case follows other convictions for on-board theft this year, including one case of an offender who had accomplices on...
Singapore Airlines passenger jailed for in-flight theft targeting business class
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Source: scmp.com

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