Hardworking in conning
A senior relative paid for money for additional renovations after HDB Home Improvement Scheme upgrades and didn't realize that the China business owners were actually conmen. They collected his deposits but didn't start work, citing all kinds of reasons. They just go around collecting deposits.
He reported to police, police said he should file a claim in Small Claims Courts. He filed a claim in Small Claims Tribunals, severed the notice via registered mails and the China men didn't even bother to attend twice!!. The referee said that the small claims courts have no power and the conmen used a private limited company. The liabilities are with the pte ltd, not the business owner.
Small Claims court said that if my relative wanted to recover his money, he got to fork out more money to make file a civil suit. Who in the right mind will spend another $10-30K for lawyers to claim back $7k from an empty-shell company.
Relative printed the company's ACRA and they are PRs, then report to ICA, ICA officer don't dare to reply in black and white; they called my relative and told him that Residency is not affected even if the China man is bankrupted.
These are real conmen.
Police pushes to Small Claims Court which has no power.
Report to ICA, ICA said conmen are welcome to continue their stay.
So the trick is, as long as they go around conning a few thousands from locals, nobody can do anything to them.