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SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Tuesday (Feb 2) said Singapore s overall crime rate rose last year due to a rise in scam cases, although physical crimes such as housebreaking fell.
In an overview of Singapore s safety and security situation in 2020, MHA said online scams saw a significant increase .
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It attributed the increase to more Singaporeans staying home because of the COVID-19 situation and carrying out more activities and transactions online.
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This inaugural column dwells on a nagging problem in dealing with a jointly owned HDB flat post-divorce.
Q: My wife and I married in Singapore last year but she continues to live in an HDB flat jointly owned with her ex-husband. I am told I am not eligible to buy a flat on my own because they have not disposed of their flat after their divorce in 2015. I now live separately in a rented room and meet my wife but not in her flat.
Am I legally allowed to go and live in the flat as I am the legal husband and she is my wife? Her ex-spouse knows she has remarried.
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ANNULLED
The marriage was annulled by the Family Justice Courts and finalised on Nov 22, 2017.
The judge who made the order did so after Lim had claimed Ms Wang had wilfully refused to consummate the marriage multiple times.
However, investigations revealed the couple did have consensual sex during marriage.
They also had sex in August and October that year, before the annulment was finalised.
It was not revealed in court documents how this was uncovered.
Lim pleaded guilty to one charge yesterday of making a false claim before the courts.
Ms Wang has not been prosecuted and has returned to China.