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The Singapore Police has taken action against transnational crime syndicates on its own or in combined operations with the Royal Malaysia Police: Thirteen transnational scam syndicates with the arrest of more than seventy persons (2022). [61] Home rental scams that incurred $1.3 million losses from 480 victims (2023). [63]
This is a list of websites that are blocked in Singapore. Under the responsibility of the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), these websites are mainly unlicensed gambling, pimping (known as vice related activities), copyright infringement/piracy, and for spreading falsehoods. Some websites may be blocked as suspected scam websites. [1]
Ng Yu Zhi. Ng Yu Zhi (born c. 1987), [1] also known as Ng You Zhi, [2][3] is a Singaporean alleged fraudster. The former director of Envy Global Trading, he was charged in March 2021 with running the largest Ponzi scheme [1] in the history of Singapore, worth about S$ 1.5 billion.
4 July 2022: A China-born Singaporean PR and his Thai wife, who were both wanted in connection with a luxury goods scam amounting to S$32 million in undelivered goods, fled to Singapore by hiding in a container compartment of a lorry departing for Malaysia; the two Malaysian drivers were arrested for abetting the couple to flee and illegal entry.
Status: In force. The Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act 2019, commonly abbreviated as POFMA and known colloquially as Fake News Law, [2] is a statute of the Parliament of Singapore that enables authorities to tackle the spread of fake news or false information. The law is designed specifically to allow authorities to ...
15 August 2023-The 10 accused in this case are arrested. Assets worth over 1 billion Singapore Dollars were either seized, frozen or issued prohibition of disposal orders, including vehicles, Bearbricks, properties, luxury items, grand pianos, liquor and wine. [1][9] 16 August 2023-The 10 accused in this case are charged in court. [4]
Website. nickleeson.com. Nicholas William Leeson[2] (born 25 February 1967) is an English former derivatives trader whose fraudulent, unauthorised and speculative trades resulted in the 1995 collapse of Barings Bank, the United Kingdom's second oldest merchant bank.
Convictions. Misuse of around S$50 million of City Harvest Church's funds. The City Harvest Church criminal breach of trust (CBT) case was one of the longest criminal trials in Singapore's history. [2] Church founder Kong Hee and five other church leaders were found guilty by a District Court on 21 October 2015 of CBT by agent after ...