Security guard gets 2 months’ jail for cheating couple of $1,050 over bogus intimate video

SINGAPORE – Taking advantage of a young couple he caught getting intimate on a staircase landing, a condominium security guard lied that they had been caught on camera and offered to destroy his “recording device” in return for money.

Nagindran Dharmiah, 32, took $1,000 in “compensation” from the girl but she reported him to the police after he asked for another $850 the next day.

There was actually no camera installed there. The device Nagindran had shown them was his clocking device, meant for recording his progress at work.

On Monday, the permanent resident from Malaysia was jailed for two months after pleading guilty to two counts of cheating the girl on March 31 last year. A third count, for getting her boyfriend to hand over his mobile phone as collateral until full compensation had been made, was taken into consideration.