SINGAPORE – A storeman at a company stole 74 laptops worth $148,000 after he was placed in charge of the warehouse where the products were kept. He admitted to having taken the laptops to sell on Carousell, an online shopping platform. They were meant to be supplied to schools under the Ministry of Education (MOE). On May 28, Mohamed Loqman Mohamed Yusof, 32, was sentenced to two years’ jail after he pleaded guilty to one charge for criminal breach of trust. The court heard that
Loqman had been employed by Micro 2000 Technology as a storeman since June 2024. The company supplies IT devices such as laptops and accessories to schools under MOE. During his employment, Loqman was charged with managing the inflow and outflow of the IT devices. He also helped with scheduling the delivery of the IT devices to the various schools, and was the sole custodian of the company’s warehouse keys. On June 10, 2025, one of the logistics providers that was tasked to deliver the IT
devices approached the company’s finance manager to inquire about 90 laptops that had been reported missing. The logistics provider said the delivery order was unsigned, but the 90 laptops had been delivered on May 29, 2025. A senior manager in Micro 2000 Technology asked Loqman about the missing laptops. He claimed he received only 85 laptops from the logistics provider, and 44 out of the 85 laptops had already been delivered to a school. But after inspecting the warehouse inventory, the manager found only 21
laptops. Loqman then said he would check on the whereabouts of the remaining 20 laptops. A day later, the manager conducted an internal investigation and found, through CCTV footage, that Loqman had loaded laptops into his own vehicle on June 3, 2025. He arranged another meeting with Loqman, who admitted he had stolen the laptops and sold them on Carousell. The manager then made a police report. Investigations revealed that Loqman had stolen a total of 74 laptops on three occasions between March 2025 and
June 2025. They were worth $148,000, the court heard. The prosecution said Loqman had made more than $10,000 from his scheme. He has not made any restitution to his company.
MOE schools, Micro 2000 Technology, Carousell, laptops, criminal breach of trust, warehouse keys, CCTV