Wee Chong Jin CJ (delivering oral judgment):

[1] The appellant was charged with 2 others of having committed the offence of having in their joint possession about $10,000 worth of US currency knowing the same to be counterfeit and intending to use them as genuine. All three pleaded guilty and the trial judge in accepting their pleas sentenced the other two accused to a term of imprisonment for two years but sentenced the appellant to imprisonment for a term of three years, the trial judge distinguishing his case on the ground that he was the main culprit and also because he had tried to mislead the court by informing the court through his counsel that the counterfeits were so well done as to be hardly distinguishable from genuine notes of the same denominations.