He was sentenced to:
* Two years and six months for misappropriating $83,500 that was entrusted to him;
* Two years for removing criminal proceeds from Singapore:
* Two months for making a false police report, and
* Two months for providing false information to police investigators.
The second and fourth sentences are to run together with the first and second.
He was to escort $83,000 from the Grand Hyatt Hotel to a nearby Citibank on July 30 last year but handed it over to an accomplice.
The money was then taken to Malaysia wher it was converted to ringgit and deposited in Malaysian banks.
He claimed trial while his two accomplices pleaded guilty.
For the conviction of committing criminal breach of trust alone, Kumaran could have been jailed for up to 10 years and fined.