Choo Luke Kuo (left) was charged in court with illegally accessing an electronic mailbox of the company months after he had quit. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
A FORMER chief executive of SPH MediaBoxOffice, Choo Luke Kuo was charged in court on Friday with illegally accessing an electronic mailbox of the company months after he had quit.
Choo, 40, faces 52 charges of using the company's electronic mail server to gain unauthorised access to the electronic mailbox over a period of four days in December 2007.
He is said to have committed the offences at two locations - a condominium in Rhu Cross around the Kallang Basin and a house in Taman Permata off Thomson Road.
Choo was represented by lawyer Michael Loh at Friday's hearing and is due back in court on July 10. He is out on $25,000 bail.
Choo joined the firm - a Singapore Press Holdings subsidiary involved in advertising - in the second half of 2005 and left the company in February 2007.
If found guilty of the offences under the Computer Misuse Act, Choo could be fined a maximum of $5,000 or jailed up to two years, or both, on each of the 52 charges.
