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不久前，新加坡警方查获一起涉案金额高达389万新元（约2075万元人民币）的特大洗钱案…

调查发现，涉案公司全部是外国人委托新加坡当地某服务公司注册，公司高层清一色是外籍，除了一位名叫Tham Li Ling的新加坡籍当地董事。

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随后警方深入调查这位Tham女士的资料，认为她大有来头…

资料显示，45岁的Tham女士先后在127家公司任职董事，目前还是84家公司的董事、四家公司的股东、一家公司的秘书，担任董事的公司经手且可追踪的赃款高达500万新元（约2667.04万元人民币），因此被列为洗钱案的重要嫌疑人。

但奇怪的是，在2016年之前，Tham女士基本没有正经的工作经历，学历也还没到中学毕业，职业发展堪称飞跃…

警方找上门后才发现，这位Tham董事，其实是一名兼职清洁女工…

Tham女士没有接受过任何管理方面的培训，也没有管理公司或员工的经验，对洗钱案一无所知，当董事纯纯是受人委托，只想赚点外快…

由于家境贫困，Tham女士在中学三年级时就辍学打工，没有文凭求职自然处处受阻，所以人到30多岁也没有找到过一份稳定的工作，只能打体力活杂工。

2015年的某天，一家名为“JJ&E”的新加坡企业服务提供商联系到她。

三 | “JJ&E”服务外国客人，为他们在新加坡当地注册公司，但按《公司法》规定，外国客户注册成立的每家新加坡公司，都至少要拥有一名当地常驻董事，所以他们希望Tham女士能出任JJ&E注册公司的当地董事，并答应给她酬金。

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2016年开始，Tham女士摇身一变，从中学没毕业的清洁女工，变成了多家公司的董事…截止于2018年4月12日，她已经是127家公司的董事，之前也曾当过另外14家公司的董事，每家公司每年会给她2000新元（约10669元人民币），是她挂名的酬劳。    Europe’s leading hotelier Accor - a French international hospitality business with billions in revenue and more than 5,100 hotels - is now beginning “trials” to hire people with no experience in the hotel industry, the company’s chief executive Sebastien Bazin said, as it struggles to fill at least 35,000 vacancies.,“We tried in Lyon and Bordeaux 10 days ago and this weekend we're having people interviewed with no CV, no previous job experience and they are hired within 24 hours," Bazin said.,Since underpaid workers left the company, Accor is now filling those positions with those who are desperate for work such as students and/or expats.,Those who are practically hired on the spot by the multi-billion dollar company are trained in only six hours and are forced to learn on the job. The company will also limit their contact with customers as they struggle with staffing.,"It's students, people coming from North Africa," Bazin said, "and basically closing restaurants for lunch or [opening them] only five days a week. There's no other solution.",Some hoteliers will have to increase pay to find the help they need this tourist season. Spain’s tourism sector supported 13.5 percent of their workforce in 2018 - before the pandemic - and accounted for 11.8 percent of their gross domestic product in 2017. But Spain’s catering industry is at present short some 200,000 workers, and Portugal is fighting to increase staff at their hotels to keep pace with increasing demand.,"Many employees have decided to move to other sectors, so we are starting an industry from scratch and we have to fight for talent," said Gabriel Escarrer, chief executive of Spanish hotel group Melia which, along with other hospitality businesses, is reportedly offering higher wages than previously, health insurance, and free accommodation - though that last perk could be more a reflection of the shortage of housing near resorts.,However, hoteliers such as Hotel Mundial - located in Lisbon, Portugal - are facing the far from ideal decision of cutting services if they can’t find staff, and those who employ students will have to juggle rotas to accommodate their schedules.,“During the week we can't open because we have no hands - they are studying,” said Jose Carlos, who owns a bar in Madrid called Tabanco de Jerez.,Spain's hospitality industry is now paying 60 percent more than it did last year, on average, in an attempt to lure workers back to the force - however, those working in the tourism industry are still among the lowest-paid workers.,"Half of it is we've been blind, we've been not paying attention to a lot of people and probably underpaying some people for too long as well," said Bazin, who is worried his company won’t have enough staff when the summer rush, which is the height of the tourist season - arrives. "So it's a wake-up call.",One of the best documented reasons for people leaving their job during 'The Great Resignation' was because they were being paid too little. Another reason was the lack of professional advancement within the industry.,Other reasons people quit in 2021 included: feeling disrespected, lack of flexibility in scheduling, and a lack of benefits such as healthcare and paid holiday, according to a Pew Research Center survey. That same survey found that those who quit their job were able to find new places of employment that offered them better pay and more opportunities.。

据Tham女士说，她在任职之前和任职期间没有对这些公司做任何调查，也没有详细了解过外籍董事的资料，甚至不知道公司在经营什么业务，更是没有见过这些外籍董事们…

公司财务方面，她没有看过公司的账目、银行账户，到手的文件、支票本都直接寄给外国顾客，从头到尾她只负责在公司的文件上签名，拿钱办事，连知情的程度都没到…

Tham女士原本还很开心能用这样的方式轻松挣钱，完全没有意识到这种做法的危险性…

据法庭文件显示，Tham女士在2017年12月到2018年2月期间，在JJ&E注册成立的三家公司做当地董事，这三家公司进行了多起商业电子邮件泄露诈骗，银行账户总共收到了约389万新元（约2075万元人民币），都是欺诈所得…

公司成立后，Tham女士就放弃了所有当地银行账户的控制权，无法访问这些公司的账户设施或银行对账单，账户由公司的外国董事们掌控。

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但事发后，Tham女士作为公司的当地董事，自然被牵扯进诈骗事件，被告上法庭，尽管她对于自己的身份和处境毫无概念…

除了被指控违反《公司法》三项罪行，Tham女士还被指控在当三家公司董事期间没有履行职责，没有尽到监督和尽职调查的义务，导致这三家公司钻空子，从外国诈骗受害者那里取得非法收益。

审判过程中，Tham女士拼命向法官求情，称自己从头到尾什么都没做，对诈骗也是毫不知情，而且在发现公司有问题后也立马辞职了。

最后法官酌情，判处Tham女士有期徒刑16天，5年内不能担任公司董事。

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