For months, the authorities remained puzzled over why they couldn't identify a female suspect, who racked up bills that amounted to $51,250 in expenditure via multiple stolen credit cards.
It finally dawned upon them that the suspect was simply a cross-dresser. 31-year-old Nur Alya Sefira Mohd Hadim had dressed up as a woman and worked nights at Orchard Tower as a social escort — his customers would end up as victims in his credit card fraud spree.