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Caning as punishment under study
The Straits Times
|March 05, 2025
Minister of State for Home Affairs Sun Xueling said on March 4 that the Government will consider caning as punishment for certain scam-related offences, given that they cause serious harm and a record $1.1 billion was lost to scammers in 2024.
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Dr Tan Wu Meng (Jurong GRC) had called on the Ministry of Home Affairs to allow caning for scam offences by drawing a parallel to the Moneylenders Act. He said: "Today, i
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