{"id":275072,"date":"2025-11-06T22:01:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/singapore-implements-law-banning-online-fraudsters-with-cane-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T22:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:16:19","slug":"singapore-implements-law-banning-online-fraudsters-with-cane-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/singapore-implements-law-banning-online-fraudsters-with-cane-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore implements law banning online fraudsters with cane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The Southeast Asian country of Singapore has introduced a law to flog those found guilty of fraud in a bid to curb online fraud. <\/p>\n<p>With 60 per cent of the crimes registered in a year being online fraud, the government is continuing with the British colonial rule punishment system. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Singapore&#8217;s parliament amended criminal law to introduce the punishment of flogging as a punishment for fraudsters. In the first half of this year alone, tens of thousands of fraud cases were reported, resulting in a fraud of about $385 million. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fraudsters will be punished with a minimum of six blows with the stick,&#8221; Sim An, senior minister of state for foreign affairs and home affairs, said in a statement. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>According to local media, the punishment could be up to 24 blows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The Southeast Asian country of Singapore has introduced a law to flog those found guilty of fraud in a bid to curb online fraud. With 60 per cent of the crimes registered in a year being online fraud, the government is continuing with the British colonial rule punishment system. Earlier this week, Singapore&#8217;s parliament [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":240980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45044,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/240980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}