Jelene Lee covers herself with a pink umbrella (left) outside the courthouse. -- ST PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN
A FIFTH former employee of Citibank Singapore was fined $70,000 on Friday for unauthorised extraction of bank and customer confidential information from its computer database.
Jelene Lee Kit Peng, 35, was a relationship manager with the Orchard Road branch when she committed 239 counts under the Computer Misuse Act.
Now unemployed, the mother of three pleaded guilty to 10 charges. The remaining counts were taken into consideration.
Attached to Citigold at the time, Lee's duties and responsibilities included managing an existing portfolio of clients with $200,000 or more, bringing in new customer account and meeting sales targets set by the management.
She reported to Jonathan Seah Thiam Heng, whose case is pending.
The court heard that in mid-2006, she contemplated leaving the bank for UBS. She told a headhunter that she would be a good candidate for Seah to have on his team in UBS.
She stated that she was ready to bring her portfolio of accounts and clients over to UBS once the bank offered and confirmed her position as a client advisor. She was subsequently offered the position.
On July 11 Citibank terminated her after it found out that she had compiled and e-mailed customer information without authority.
She e-mailed existing spreadsheets of Citibank customer information to her husband's personal e-mail account. In all, she compiled information pertaining to 239 Citibank customers.
She could have been fined up to $100,000 and/or jailed for up to 20 years on each proceeded charge.
