SINGAPORE: The warrant of criminal arrest was issued upon Tuesday (Sep 6) for a man accused of conspiring to assist a businessman associated with a billion-dollar dime investment fraud situation flee Singapore.
Shawn Liew Cheng Long, 36, was charged in July with one count of conspiring with another guy to assist the former handling director of Envy Global Trading Ng Yu Zhi in order to leave Singapore illegally. This was when Ng was under investigation for criminal offences.
Liew failed to turn up for their court mention upon Tuesday. The determine issued a bring about of arrest for him, and his 2 defence counsels had been discharged.
Liew is accused of engaging in a conspiracy with Ang Yew Teck around August 2021 to help Ng leave Singapore plus obstruct the span of justice. He apparently offered Ng programs to leave the nation.
Ang was handed a similar charge in February and face other offences including illegal gambling works.
The police previously said in a statement that this case is definitely separate from another bet by three others to help Ng get away . All three have been sentenced to jail.
Ng faces more than one hundred charges, including cheating and criminal infringement of trust. Among the charges is for dishonestly misappropriating at least S$201. 2 million from Envy Worldwide Trading’s DBS bank account between August 2020 and February 2021.
His alleged victims include a criminal lawyer who was apparently cheated in an agreement involving more than S$1 million between October 2020 and January 2021, as well as a lady listed as general counsel on Temasek’s website.
She was allegedly cheated into providing S$5. 5 million to Envy Global Trading for 4 receivables purchase agreements between October 2020 and January 2021.
Ng is also accused of infidelity a former president of the Law Society of Singapore of about S$87, 000 between October 2020 and Dec 2020.
Ng is next started return to court for a pre-trial conference within October.