Rudy Lim was sentenced to two months' jail. He is now out on bail. -- ST FILE PHOTO
THE truth has caught up with a lawyer who claimed his last-drawn salary to be 21/2 times higher than it really was, so he could secure a fatter pay cheque from his new employer.
Rudy Lim, 37, who moved from international law firm DLAS to Duane Morris LLP in January 2007, was earning $25,000 a month at DLAS, but claimed to have been making $65,000.
He was caught out when his former colleagues at DLAS, checking the electronic records stored in the firm's computer server, found the forged pay statement he had created.
The fake payroll statement also stated that his profit share as a fixed-share equity partner in DLAS was $150,000 for the financial year 2005, when he had no such entitlement.
Lim was yesterday jailed for two months for forgery. He is appealing against the conviction and the sentence and is out on $80,000 bail posted by his father.
District Judge Jill Tan, who found him guilty on March 12 after a three-day trial, said at the sentencing yesterday that, as a lawyer, Lim should have realised the gravity of creating a fraudulent document and providing false information.
