Remember this guy?
Yeah, the dude who faked his death in Harry Potter, disapparated onto local shores and started sending harassment letters to everyone.
In Yishun, to be exact.
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With an extra R for Revenge against Harry Potter too, no less.
That guy.
Where’s Harry Potter when you need him, goddamit.
Well, as it turns out, we didn’t need the Boy Who Lived at all. Our own Aurors, masquerading in the form of the police, have since nabbed the suspect in question…
And as it turns out, Lord Voldemort has been adopting quite a career in Singapore too.
Remember Yishun’s Lord Voldermort? He’s Actually An Angry Insurance Agent
According to Channel News Asia, an insurance agent who took on the guise of “Lord Voldemort” in order to exact revenge on former and potential clients (because they rejected his business), has been sentenced to jail for two years and five months earlier this year on 29 Jan.
He lost an appeal against his jail sentence just three days ago, on 19 July.
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A Myanmar national and Singapore permanent resident, Ye Lin Myint had sent 43 letters to 33 victims, threatening harm unless they transferred him bitcoins.
When they didn’t fall for it, the former Prudential insurance agent then sent similar letters to their neighbours, having been inspired by a news article about “loan sharks pressuring debtors by harassing their neighbours”.
Hefty preparation process
The ‘Dark Lord’ first began his preparations in July 2017, using his wife’s laptop to create an email account with a Switzerland-based email service which did not require any personal information.
He also created a Bitcoin wallet to receive the cryptocurrency. He had linked it to an e-mail account that was created under the same alias, ‘Lord Voldermort’.
Sending letters to clients and potential clients alike in August 2017, he then went on to threaten their neighbours as well, with threats like the following:
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“For the past few months, I have been monitoring you and your wife and I know everything about you and your family. I know where you live, where you work.
“I can make your life total humiliated and miserable [sic] in your Myanmar community. I can make you become jobless. I can even physically harm you and your wife and your parents if I want to.”
After extensive investigations by the police, Ye was eventually arrested. The police had taken multiple victim statements and used DNA evidence to track him down.
Pleaded guilty
In court, Ye pleaded guilty to five charges of criminal intimidation and eight charges under the Protection from Harassment Act, with another 30 charges taken into consideration.
During sentencing, the judge dismissed Ye’s use of character names like Lord Voldermort and Dr Bruce Banner, stating that notion should not distract from the malign purpose of Ye’s intimidating messages. Which is only appropriate, though there’s a slight fulfilment here.
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Considering how Lord Voldermort failed to win in the books…
It might only be appropriate that his local counterpart fails to win against the law too.
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