
He said this in a written reply to a question raised in Parliament by Non-Constituency Member of Parliament Gerald Giam Yean Song.

Mr Tan said that the Government had tightened its legislation in 2012 and increased penalties for making false statements or submitting false documents in support of work pass applications.

He said that since 2012 to the first half of this year, the Government has successfully prosecuted about 150 foreigners, and that all those prosecuted were sentenced to imprisonment terms, and had their work pass revoked and barred from working in Singapore.
He also said that the Government has stregthened its credential checks by supplementing checks with third-party overseas screening agencies and verifying certificates directly with issuing institutions.
Source: AsiaOne
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