CAMBODIAN PASSPORT STATUS
After the jury determined that Yong’s appearance in Japan was not important and that he had access to substantial cash it, increasing his flight danger, his application was turned down in August of last year.
District Judge Brenda Tan, who also presided over Thursday’s reading, rejected Yong’s following request to leave the country on February 19.
The position of Yong’s Thai passport, with its locations unknown, was a key issue at the earlier hearings.
During Thursday’s reading, Yong’s attorneys provided details about the Vietnamese passport’s fate, with the defense attorneys citing evidence that the passport has been canceled. Melanie Ho, Tang Shangwei, and Neo Yi Ling, all of whom are from Wong Partnership, represent Yun.  ,
Ms. Ho claimed that the defense had obtained photos and videos that showed that Yong’s Thai passport had the word” delayed” on it and was currently in the possession of Cambodian government.  ,
She claimed that this provided conclusive proof that the card was no longer a “live matter.”  ,
Additionally, Ms. Ho refuted the lawyer’s assertion that Yong has been looking for additional passports.  ,
She claimed that the trial had misinterpreted the WhatsApp messages Yong exchanged with a Thai representative about the order of a house in Grenada.
The trial wants to create a conspiracy theory that he is somehow obtaining documents everywhere. They mentioned a Cyprus card based on one picture in new proposals, according to Ms. Ho.  ,
Yong and he had exchanged information on applying for a new card, but he failed to do so, according to Ms Ho.  ,
She claimed that the prosecution had no authority to confirm or verify the existence of various passports because the defense could not establish a negative.  ,
There is no such item as it is, according to Ms. Ho.  ,
The prosecution is responsible for proving that he has another documents. They are relying on thin views of long-ago WhatsApp messages that they know they can’t, according to Ms Ho.
She also suggested that the trial was raising the information to “place new concerns” and to “impose yet another barrier” to halt Yong’s travel.  ,
She argued that Yong was hardly a flight threat because he fully cooperated with studies and will now travel to Singapore to prove his innocence.  ,
It is “preposterous” to declare that Yong may give up his reputation and everything in Singapore in order to go on the run, the prosecutor said.  ,