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Su had admitted guilt on two counts, including having S$ 550, 903, and using a home purchase agreement to defraud to reveal the source of about S$ 2 million that had been deposited into his Maybank accounts. Another 12 claims were taken into consideration for punishment.
About S$ 187 million worth of assets linked to Su or held under his wife’s label have been seized including income, properties, cars, luxury items, crypto and beer.
This is among the highest among the ten criminals in the investigation.
Su has agreed to have the state forfeit at least 95 % of the seized property.
Eight people who had already been deported from Singapore to Cambodia, including Su, were deported.  ,
The others were Zhang Ruijin, Su Baolin, Su Haijin, Su Wenqiang, Wang Baosen, Chen Qingyuan and Lin Baoying.
Eventually, Zhang was expelled from the country by Cambodian specialists.  ,
Zhang was deported to a country where the government’s General Department of Immigration had noted that he had a card from Saint Kitts and Nevis, a small island state in the Caribbean.
The remaining criminals,  , Vang Shuiming and Wang Dehai,  , were deported to Japan and the United Kingdom both.
Zhang was the fifth of 10 accused persons to be dealt with by Singapore’s courts in relation to the S$ 3 billion ( US$ 2.2 billion ) money laundering case. He forfeited around S$ 118 million in property to the state, which , amounted to about 90 per cent of the S$ 131 million worth of assets actually seized by the authorities.
The event, which concluded in , June, involved 10 immigrants and billions of dollars worth of assets such as painful money,  , luxury properties, branded items, crypto and alcohol.
About S$ 944 million ( US$ 697 million ) in assets seized in relation to the 10 criminals embroiled in one of Singapore’s largest money-laundering probes was forfeited to the state, while the 10 individuals who were convicted were sentenced to between 13 and 17 months ‘ jail.  ,
17 additional suspects who are n’t currently in Singapore are still being investigated. The remaining$ 3 billion worth of the entire S$ seized is made up of belongings to these suspects.
Zhang, one of the seven people who were found guilty in the$ 3 billion income trafficking case, were deported from Singapore to Cambodia. The others are  , Su Baolin, Su Haijin, Su Wenqiang, Wang Baosen, Chen Qingyuan and Lin Baoying.  ,
Vang Shuiming was deported to Japan, while Wang Dehai was deported to the English and they , are all barred from re-entering Singapore.  , Only , Su Jianfeng, a 36-year-old Vanuatu regional with stems in Fujian, China, remains in Singapore. He , was sentenced to 17 times ‘ prison next month.  ,
Despite acknowledging , that three of the seven deported people do not carry Thai documents, based on publicly available data,  , Singapore’s Minister of State for Home Affairs and for Social and Family Development , Sun Xueling said on Jul 2 the goal was to quickly and effectively arrest the convicted foreigners.
Europeans who have been found guilty of crimes in Singapore and are deported can show which nation they want to go to, she added.
However, it is not the case where the violators respond to a question from Ms. Sylvia Lim ( WP-Aljunied ) in response to” I choose and therefore I will be sent there.” According to her,” there needs to be an evaluation by the government as to whether or not the person may be allowed to the land, based on the travel file that he or she holds.”
” These foreigners may enter any nation to which their card or go record authorizes travel.” Similar to the convicted immigrants in the S$ 3 billion cash trafficking case, this applies.
According to Ms. Sun, the ministry will have to choose the country where convicted foreigners with many passports have the best chance of being admissible, and then conduct an assessment before deporting them.
Minister of State for Law and Transport Murali Pillai added:” In the presence of abduction, the place is that after judgment and offering of statement, the criminals will be required to keep Singapore.
We have no control over what happens to them in those nations or their nationalities.
CNA has contacted GDI for more information about where Zhang was deported from Singapore to Cambodia, as well as the immigration status of the six other people who were deported from Singapore to Cambodia.  ,
On July 3, a picture of the news was posted to the radical Islamic website Arrahmah’s YouTube account.
In the movie, the 16 JI officers are seen standing on a level. They include Para Wijayanto, who was detained in 2019 for recruiting extremists and raising money for Syria, and Abu Rusdan, a violent cleric and former JI president who was detained in Bekasi in September 2021. Both are still in confinement.
According to Abu Rusdan, the legislature of senior citizens and leaders of JI-affiliated Muslim boarding schools convened on the breakdown.  ,
They agreed to revert to the rule of Indonesia and may modify the education of the JI-affiliated schools to prevent the creation of extremist supplies.  ,
The group’s founding in 1993 by Abdullah Sungkar and Abu Bakar Bashir had the intention to establish an Islamist state in Southeast Asia.
Abu Bakar was given a 15-year prison sentence in 2011 for allegedly funding violent education in Aceh, while Abdullah passed away in 1999. The 83- yr- ancient was released in 2021 on humanitarian basis.
Following a number of evil attacks carried out by individuals acting on behalf of the group, the Jakarta District Court in 2008 designated the organization as a prohibited organization.
Following a number of splits, JI saw organizations founded by people who were unhappy with the choices of its major bronze. Abu Bakar Bashir, who founded the Indonesian Mujahidin Council ( MMI ), left JI in 2000 before resigning in 2008 after an internal dispute.
MMI was named a Specially Designated Global Terrorist ( SDGT ) by the United States in 2017 because of its alleged connections to the Al Qaeda and Al Nusra Front movements. Despite the MMI’s denial of links to terror groups, the US believes this group poses a substantial risk of carrying out terrorist acts.
A Singaporean man who was wanted over alleged links to drug trafficking and the country’s drug trade has been apprehended and charged, according to the Central Narcotics Bureau on Sunday ( Jun 30 ).
The 43- yr- ancient, who operated from abroad, had been out of Singapore since Sep 27, 2019.  ,
The man is wanted, according to CNB, because he is suspected of helping associates in Singapore obtain drugs for their following prostitution and local purchase.  ,
His role was made known during the course of CNB’s inquiries into a situation involving drug trafficking in February 2021.  ,
The accused in the case, a Malaysian man aged 36 at the time of imprisonment, was apprehended with about 472g of cocaine. He has since been convicted and sentenced.
As part of initiatives to monitor the 43- year- ancient down, CNB reached out to its international counterparts.  ,
The CNB and the Counter-Narcotics Police Department of the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam worked closely together to track the criminal until Jun 28 when he was deported and turned over to CNB, according to the bureau.  ,
The 39-year-old was next charged with drug trafficking in relation to the situation involving the person.  ,
Senior Assistant Commissioner Leon Chan, the deputy director of the CNB, thanked the Ministry of Public Security ( MPS) ‘ Counter-Narcotics Police Department ( CNPD ) for their” strong support.”  ,
The nearby cooperation between CNB and CNPD in this activity, which led to the arrest of a Singaporean who believed he could continue supplying medicines to affiliates in Singapore without violence, was a result of CNB and CNPD’s strong working relationship and trust, according to the statement. He was terribly mistaken”, he said.  ,
“CNB will look into any prospects and cooperate strongly with our international counterparts to capture and prosecute these criminals.”
Mr. Andrews noted in his most recent statement that Thailand has now become the regime’s main supplier of goods purchased through the world bank system.
Arms and related supplies transferred from Thailand-registered businesses increased from over US$ 60 million in the governmental year of 2022 to over US$ 120 million the following month.
The Thai authorities, according to Mr. Andrews, does not have a clear public policy place opposing the move of arms to Myanmar, unlike Singapore.
According to the review, the junta’s buying originally made from Singapore- based companies, including sections for Mi- 17 and Mi- 35 helicopters, are now being sourced from Thailand. According to the report, the junta uses these helicopters to move soldiers and carry out airstrikes on human targets.
Thai businesses, including Siam Commercial Bank, have been important in this change, said Mr Andrews.
In the 2022 fiscal year, the country’s oldest professional banks facilitated more than US$ 5 million in transactions involving Myanmar’s military purchasing. In 2023, this soared to more than US$ 100 million.
Mr. Andrews expressed wish that Thailand will conduct an investigation into and stop the flow of arms into Myanmar in a similar way to Singapore’s.
He emphasized that he found no proof of the governments ‘ presence or recognition of the deals in both countries ‘ cases.
He cited the Singapore government’s launch of an investigation that led to this major drop when we released the statement indicating the entities from Singapore that were involved in this trade next year.
We’re hoping Thailand did follow suit, and we’ll see a similar pattern from Thailand this year from Singapore.
A Singaporean woman who was reportedly last seen in January was discovered dead in a Vietnam apartment on Thursday ( Jun 13 ). The victim’s body was discovered at the Ho Chi Minh City condominium’s Goldview, according to Asian media. The girl, who was not named, was last seen onContinue Reading
Two Singaporean men who were taken into custody in Johor during drug raids were charged in Singapore on Thursday ( Jun 13 ) with drug trafficking and failing to report for urine tests.
The Narcotics Crime Investigation Department (NCID ) of the Royal Malaysian Police detained the two men, ages 48 and 35, on May 29.
During the operation, the NCID arrested 14 suspects for drug trafficking and seized RM11.6 million ( S$ 3.2 million ) worth of drugs at various locations.
The two men were handed over to Singapore’s Central Narcotics Bureau ( CNB) on Jun 12.  ,
According to a media release from CNB, the 48-year-old was wanted for suspected drug trafficking in Singapore, and the 35-year-old was wanted for failing to report for urinary checks since October 2023.  ,
The 14 people, whose names are two Indonesian men, six international men, and six international women between the ages of 22 and 52, were taken into custody in seven raids around Johor Bahru and the Iskandar Puteri place, according to a statement from the Royal Malaysia Police, according to an earlier media speech.  ,
Among those arrested was a 49- year- ancient foreign person, who is said to be a gang leader. The NCID even found the syndicate’s processing services.
It added that the projected weight of all the seized medication was 198.5kg, including joy powder and pills, syabu, morphine, Erimin- 5 pills and MDMA.  ,
According to NCID producer Khaw Kok Chin, the amount of medication confiscated is enough to support the habit of about 1.24 million people.  ,
The Royal Malaysia Police likewise seized six cars, 14 pieces of different models, jewellery, as well as RM204, 069 and S$ 22, 970 in money. The total value of the seized property is estimated to be RM1.17 million.
Mr Khaw said the syndicate, which was active since January, would rent condominiums and terraced houses with fences and guards.  ,
These locations would be used to process drugs before driving to neighboring nations. Following the raids, all the areas that processed drugs were closed down.  ,
According to investigations, one of the strategies employed by the syndicate involved packing drugs in juice packets and producing substances that appeared to be painkillers in disguise.  ,
Senior Assistant Commissioner Leon Chan, the acting director of the CNB, expressed his gratitude for the Royal Malaysia Police and Narcotics Crime Investigation Department.
” We thank our Malaysian counterparts for their assistance and prompt action in bringing the suspects back to Singapore to face the law,” the statement reads.
There is no safe haven for drug use, and both organizations will continue to cooperate closely to stop illicit drug trafficking.
If convicted, the men may face sentences of up to 30 years or life imprisonment with 15 strokes of the cane.
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong has written to India’s Narendra Modi to congratulate him on his reappointment as prime minister, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday ( Jun 10 ). On June 4, Mr. Modi won India’s weeks-long general election by claiming an all-important parliamentary majority fromContinue Reading
SQ321 was on its approach from London to Singapore, and was  , over the Irrawaddy Basin in Myanmar when , “rapid” G- power shifts wreaked havoc in the house. The plane’s roof was thrown up before falling back to earth, causing the passengers and crew to fall.  ,
One American traveler, Mr Geoff Kitchen, 73, died on board, possible because of a heart attack, while another suffered brain and spinal cord injury.  ,
The day after the tragedy, 58 people were warded in three facilities, including 20 individuals in the ICU.
At that time, five Singapore from the aircraft, including two in ICU, were receiving therapy in Thailand.
CNA understands that Mr Bobby Chin, a former part of the , Council of Presidential Advisers,  , was hospitalised in Bangkok, but is comfortably back in Singapore.
One person, good Singaporean, was also warded in Bangkok Hospital as of 12pm on Jun 5, according to a blog on Samitivej Hospital’s Twitter site. Two Singapore were originally warded in that doctor, according to an earlier update.
According to Dr. Saran, none of the patients who are still warded in Thailand are ICU patients.  ,
” I assume that maybe a week or not more than two weeks from now, the ( patients ), all of them, can… go back home”, he said.
In the first 24 hours after arriving in Bangkok, nine of the patients who received treatment at Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital needed disaster surgery.
One person had to have multiple therapies because the victim’s symptoms changed after the initial procedure, making this case the most challenging one at the hospital.
It is “hard to say” whether patients may experience long-term results like numbness or chronic pain, according to Dr. Saran.
” We have some technology, some models that can support and help the person to go back to have normal life activities as ( they had ) previously”, he said.
He claimed that none of the patients had a perfect spinal cord injury.
In such a scenario, there would be” no way to go back”.
A perfect injuries, as defined by the website of Johns Hopkins Medicine, means that the body is not moving or feeling below the injury’s level.  ,