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French national Vu Han Jean-Luc Kha, the CEO of food and beverage firm, The Prive Group hurled vulgarities and assaulted a teenager in an unprovoked attack in a lift. The incident on 22 Nov 2019, mentally scarred the then 13-year-old boy so badly that he was still scared of taking a lift a year later.

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Jail for woman who helped sister to obtain bank accounts, ATM cards for use in scams​

Despite suspecting that the accounts would likely be used for illicit activities from the onset, Nguyen Lan Dung agreed to the arrangement.ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG
Andrew Wong
Jun 19, 2025

SINGAPORE – Lured by the promise of money, a woman decided to take up her sister’s offer to obtain bank accounts and cards in exchange for payment.

Despite suspecting that the accounts would likely be used for illicit activities from the onset, Nguyen Lan Dung, 24, agreed to the arrangement.

On June 19, the Vietnamese national was sentenced to 10 months’ jail after pleading guilty to three charges under the Computer Misuse Act, and one under the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act.


Eleven charges of a similar nature were taken into consideration during the sentencing. Dung was also fined $1,700.

Investigations revealed that after Dung agreed to the arrangement, she reached out to a man to say she knew people who would pay him for control of his bank account. Court documents do not reveal how investigations into Dung and her sister started.

Sometime in March 2024, the man agreed and gave up his bank details and the corresponding physical ATM card.

Dung handed over the card and login details to her sister and her sister’s boyfriend, and was paid $700.

Court documents stated that the man’s bank account and ATM card were later found to be linked to extortion scams, and were used to transact a flow of scam proceeds.

Under the arrangement, Dung would also act as the point of contact for other Vietnamese nationals who were willing to sell their bank accounts.

She would earn between $500 and $700 for each bank account she helped to procure.

Sometime in March 2024, she managed to obtain two different bank accounts from two Vietnamese nationals.

Court documents do not reveal how Dung had managed to contact the two.

Around the same period, Dung, along with her sister and her sister’s boyfriend, arranged to sell 11 bank accounts to unknown persons.

Dung’s sister, Nguyen Huong Giang, remains on the run from Singapore.

Court hands down 19 months’ jail to voyeur who preyed on female landlord, toddler​

Andrew Wong
Dec 30, 2024

SINGAPORE - A long-time tenant has been handed a jail sentence after he abused the trust of his landlord by taking voyeuristic videos of the woman and her child when the girl was between three and four years old.

The Malaysian man was found with videos and screenshots that dated back to 2018. The 74 screenshots were from videos recorded of the landlord.

The 40-year-old was on Dec 30 sentenced to 19 months’ jail after pleading guilty to two voyeurism offences and one for insulting the modesty of a woman.


Two other charges were taken into consideration during his sentencing.

The man cannot be named as there is a gag order to protect the identity of the victims.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Lynda Lee said the man had been renting a bedroom in the woman’s Housing Board flat for 10 years when he was caught in the act.

His landlord lived there with her husband and their daughter.

The court heard that on the morning of April 8, the man was in the flat with the woman, 45, when he heard the sound of running water.

When he realised his landlord was in the shower, he sneaked into her room and held his phone beneath the toilet door with the video camera facing upwards.


DPP Lee said the man was so engrossed in the act that he failed to realise the victim was about to walk out.

She found him squatting on the floor with his phone pointed at her.

The man, who was employed as an aerospace machine operator in Singapore, ran back into his bedroom as the woman screamed.

She called her husband – who was at work at the time – and he immediately alerted the police.

Investigations revealed that the man had retained 24 videos and 74 screenshots in 14 devices – four mobile phones, six thumb drives, three memory cards and one memory card reader.

He admitted to taking voyeuristic videos of the woman’s daughter.

The man was found with multiple videos of the young child in various states of undress. He said he pleasured himself to the videos of both the woman and her daughter.

DPP Lee read out in court parts of the victim’s statement, which said the woman is still suffering from the effects of the incident. She is often worried that there is someone outside the toilet, even when she is alone.

The victim said her daughter remains unaware of the incidents.

The man could have been jailed for up to two years, fined and caned for intentionally observing someone doing an intimate or private act without his or her consent.