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Singapore billion dollar money laundering case. On 15 August 2023, the Singapore Police Force conducted an operation against money laundering. [ 1] It is the biggest money laundering case in Singapore, and among the biggest in the world, [ 2] involving assets worth 3 billion Singapore dollars. [ 3]
Est. total population ('000) 5,917.6. Crime rates in Singapore are some of the lowest in the world, with petty crimes such as pickpocketing and street theft rarely occurring, and violent crime being extremely rare. [ 1] Penalties for drug offences such as trafficking in Singapore are severe, and include the death penalty.
29 May 2010: In a case known as the 2010 Kallang slashings, four Malaysians from Sarawak – 21-year-old Micheal Garing, 31-year-old Tony Anak Imba, 20-year-old Hairee Landak and 19-year-old Donny Meluda – committed a series of armed robberies, causing three victims to sustain serious injuries. They also targeted their fourth victim, 41-year ...
1860s. Jacob Young, William Abrams, and Nancy Clem ran what author Wendy Gamber argues, in her book The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age, was the first-ever Ponzi scheme. [ 1][ 2] In Munich, Germany, Adele Spitzeder founded the "Spitzedersche Privatbank" in 1869, promising an interest rate of 10 percent per month.
Ng Yu Zhi (born c. 1987), [1] also known as Ng You Zhi, [2] [3] is a Singaporean alleged fraudster. The former director of Envy Global Trading, he was charged in March 2021 with running the largest Ponzi scheme [1] in the history of Singapore, worth about S$ 1.5 billion.
Scammer ingenuity knows no bounds. In 2010, as in years past, more criminals are taking the trouble to craft schemes, fudge websites, and get rich off the tight economy and the consumer ...
10 October 2022: 19-year-old Sylesnar Seah Jie Kai attacked and killed his 47-year-old father Eddie Seah Wee Teck after a heated argument at their flat, Block 653 Yishun Avenue 4 around midnight. Sylesnar Seah, the youngest of three children in his family, was arrested at the scene of crime. He was charged in court two days later on 12 October.
Job hunters, consumers trying to dig themselves out of debt and those desperate to earn some extra money on the side were frequent victims of fraudsters, hackers and dishonest businesses in 2010 ...