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M1 manager stole $2m to buy expensive cars, watches to make up for sexual inadequacy

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http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/sub/news/story/0,4574,414449,00.html?


Published November 23, 2010

Telco sues over 'M1ssing M1llions'

M1 says ex-employee embezzled $2m and splurged on Porsches, Rolexes, Audemars Piguets and $200,000 live stingray


By MICHELLE QUAH


(SINGAPORE) First there was the Lamborghini man, now there's the Porsche man - as yet another tale of suspected embezzlement and lavish spending comes to light.



Big spender: Mr Yeo allegedly spent the money on a Patek Philippe watch worth $50,000, three Rolex watches worth $8,000 each, and four Audemars Piguet watches worth between $15,000 and $30,000 each. He also allegedly bought an Arowana worth $160,000 and a stingray worth $200,000, spent $230,000 on a Porsche in August this year which he traded in for a $430,000 Porsche in October
BT has learnt that Singapore telco, M1, is suing a former employee for having allegedly made off with some $2 million of its money - money which Matthew Yeo Kay Keng, 35, is said to have spent on two Porsches and an array of luxury watches, including three Rolexes and four Audemars Piguets, and a $200,000 live stingray.

According to court documents inspected by BT yesterday, M1 claims its former account manager sold 3,414 handsets to resellers, when he was employed between January 2008 and November this year, and pocketed the cash - $2.09 million of it.

M1 dismissed Mr Yeo on Nov 15 and filed a writ of summons against him the next day. The telco is suing Mr Yeo for breach of his employment agreement, breach of duty of fidelity, fraudulent misrepresentation and unjust enrichment. And it is asking the court to award it damages - which may or may not include restitution from Mr Yeo - as well as interests and costs.

M1 also obtained a court injunction against Mr Yeo on Nov 18, which prohibits him from removing any of his assets from Singapore, disposing of any of them or doing anything that might diminish their value - up to the value of $2.09 million, excluding interest accrued.

Mr Yeo - who has seven days to respond to the writ of summons - has not yet filed his defence. He was in police custody after being dismissed by M1, but BT was unable to confirm if he remains so.

The alleged crime was discovered earlier this month, when M1 conducted a review of its employees' sales performance, according to the affidavit prepared by the telco's chief financial officer, Lee Kok Chew. Mr Yeo had been employed as a sales executive from December 1997 to October 2006, before leaving and rejoining as an account manager in the corporate sales department in January 2008.

According to Mr Lee's affidavit, Mr Yeo - whose duties were to meet with corporate clients and earn commission from the sales made - was found to have an unsatisfactory sales record, in that his subscription sales were low. M1 then conducted a check on a number of Mr Yeo's clients and found that the number of handsets reportedly sold by Mr Yeo were far greater than the actual number of subscriptions keyed into M1's system.

It then discovered that Mr Yeo had generated stock order forms for non-existent orders supposedly placed by his customers. The handsets were then allegedly sold by him to resellers for cash, which he pocketed.

Mr Lee, in his affidavit, said the company then conducted an interview with Mr Yeo on Nov 15 - during which Mr Yeo is said to have admitted to wrongfully and dishonestly taking the handsets for his own benefit. Mr Yeo then reportedly told the company that he received about $2 million from the sale of such handsets, of which he spent $230,000 on a Porsche in August this year, which he traded in for a $430,000 Porsche in October.

Mr Yeo is also said to have told M1 that he also spent the money on a Patek Philippe watch worth $50,000, three Rolex watches worth $8,000 each, and four Audemars Piguet watches worth between $15,000 and $30,000 each. He also allegedly claimed that he had only $500 in his UOB account, and that he was willing to sell his car, watches and fish - an Arowana worth $160,000 and a stingray worth $200,000 - to make up for what he had done.

Mr Lee's affidavit said M1 subsequently found discrepancies in Mr Yeo's statements. It found that he has several other bank accounts - with Maybank and Standard Chartered - as well as shares in a securities account with the Singapore Exchange.

The telco also found that Mr Yeo had been transferring money offshore - a total of $47,300 to a Yang Chi Kit in Hong Kong, a discovery which likely prompted M1 to obtain an injunction against the former account manager.

The injunction prohibits Mr Yeo from dealing in or disposing of his assets worldwide. The assets include his Porsche and his collection of high-end watches - which, in addition to those mentioned before, also include one Hublot, one Panerai, several IWCs, and one Porsche design watch - which are collectively estimated to be worth $621,000, and other brands of watches estimated to be worth $300,000. Other assets include his Floravale condominium, the cash in his various bank accounts, his shares, and his fish.

Mr Yeo is, however, allowed to spend $1,000 a week on his ordinary living expenses and a 'reasonable sum' on legal advice and representation. The injunction states that the unencumbered value of the assets that remain here must be at least $2.09 million.

News of this suit comes just days after it was revealed that Koh Seah Wee, a former senior executive of the Singapore Land Authority - who conspired to steal some $12 million from the statutory board - is suspected to also have stolen from another place of work, the Intellectual Property of Singapore, and to have spent part of that money on a $1.6 million Lamborghini.
 

Leongsam

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Re: M1 manager stole $2m to buy expensive cars, watches to make up for sexual inadequ

This is what happens in a society which ranks materialism above all else. :rolleyes:
 

littlefish

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Re: M1 manager stole $2m to buy expensive cars, watches to make up for sexual inadequ

WTF? The Arowana and stingray are each worth way more than me. :eek:
 

halsey02

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Re: M1 manager stole $2m to buy expensive cars, watches to make up for sexual inadequ

WTF? The Arowana and stingray are each worth way more than me. :eek:

The two fishes have no resale value, depreciates immediately when bought, not his money he is spending.

$360,000 for an Arowana & a Stingray.....:p
 

red amoeba

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Re: M1 manager stole $2m to buy expensive cars, watches to make up for sexual inadequ

Chow Chee Bye...allowed to spend 1000 a week when you are under investigation for crimes?

So, spend 1,000 a week buy 4D or bet on soccer match can? Like that if win, can can 5,000 to spend right?

And by the way, simi lan jiao stingray can cost 200,000? At first i thot its a car model...
 

Leongsam

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Re: M1 manager stole $2m to buy expensive cars, watches to make up for sexual inadequ

i think that he is quite successful! able to embezzle $2 mil at age 35.:rolleyes:
Anyone can embezzle millions. Very few can do so AND get away with it.:rolleyes:
 
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Re: M1 manager stole $2m to buy expensive cars, watches to make up for sexual inadequ

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are you the few that got away with it?:rolleyes::eek:



... he not only got away with it but also


enjoying it ... and tellling the world what a


wonderful person he is .... :eek::eek::eek:
 

@rmadill0

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Re: M1 manager stole $2m to buy expensive cars, watches to make up for sexual inadequ

The two fishes have no resale value, depreciates immediately when bought, not his money he is spending.

$360,000 for an Arowana & a Stingray.....:p

Madness. I rather splurge S$360,000 at KTVs. What the hell he wants the 2 things swimming in the water for? He gets high watching them?
 

BuiKia

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Re: M1 manager stole $2m to buy expensive cars, watches to make up for sexual inadequ

This started when they started the hype about being number 1 in everything. Mainly on tangible stuff.


This is what happens in a society which ranks materialism above all else. :rolleyes:
 
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BCR101

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Re: M1 manager stole $2m to buy expensive cars, watches to make up for sexual inadequ

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...and that he was willing to sell his car, watches and fish - an Arowana worth

$160,000 and a stingray worth $200,000 - to make up for what he had done
.



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This is Madness



The Morale of The Story is every Fish

has its days

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bryanlim1972

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Re: M1 manager stole $2m to buy expensive cars, watches to make up for sexual inadequ

This is what happens in a society which ranks materialism above all else. :rolleyes:

it is intellectually dishonest to blame society for the free choices made by 1 man.

"this" (ie. cheating) happens in all societies.

i challenge you to name 1 non-materialistic society with no incidence of cheating.
 

linlaopeh

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Re: M1 manager stole $2m to buy expensive cars, watches to make up for sexual inadequ

wise words.

I really hope more such cases are reported by the free media for the world to see that Singapore has lost it soul and blinded by greed and pursuit of material. I believe there are exponentially more such cases that go un-reported and/or settled privately out of court.
 

halsey02

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Re: M1 manager stole $2m to buy expensive cars, watches to make up for sexual inadequ

Ya, now a society with lose morality.

They learn from the best in the land, who dress in white, every election they win without a fight.:mad:
 
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