Ah Neh LowYar Jailed Long Time for Stealing Clients' Money!

[Asterix]

This case makes Tan Cheng Yoke's and David What's His Name's look like small potatoes. Tan had to go to foreign casinos to gamble, now Sinkie lowyars can go to MBS, just a stone's throw from their CBD offices. Which political party made it so convenient to gamble everything away?

Gambling lawyer in Hong Kong’s biggest fraud case jailed for 12 years
Former senior partner once gambled HK$10m in a day in Hong Kong’s worst case of embezzlement

A former senior partner of an international law firm who once gambled away HK$10 million in a day was jailed for 12 years yesterday for a HK$8 billion (S$1.3 billion) fraud and money laundering scheme designed to pay off his huge betting debts.

Sentencing Navin-kumar Aggarwal, former partner of K&L Gates, a judge described it as Hong Kong's worst case of embezzlement.

Aggarwal, 47, pleaded guilty in the Court of First Instance to two counts of fraud and one of money laundering in a scheme that caused losses for 92 potential investors, two clients and the law firm over a period of four years.

The scheme involved HK$8.5 billion, with most of it being repaid to the victims.

The potential investors - from Hong Kong and overseas - and the two clients suffered actual losses of HK$572 million and the firm had paid compensation to the clients while facing legal claims from the other victims.

"How does a man get through at least HK$500 million of other people's money? The answer in your case was gambling," Mr Justice Peter Line, told Aggarwal. "So the money has gone forever, lost in the casinos of Macau, wasted in the pursuit of your own pleasure."

The judge said that as a senior partner in an international law firm, Aggarwal was in a position of great trust. "Because of that trust you were able to have access to enormous sums of other people's money. For a period of four years you betrayed that trust and fraudulently plundered their accounts."

Barrister Graham Harris SC, for Aggarwal, said: "He is now left with nothing. All he has left is the disgrace he brought upon himself."

The court heard that the solicitor, who earned up to US$1 million a year, needed the money to settle huge debts he ran up by gambling, a habit he picked up in mid-2000s.

The court heard that K&L Gates paid HK$83 million in compensation to the two clients, businessman Hui Kau-mo and investor Mark Lightbown.

The firm has more than 2,000 lawyers who practise in 48 offices on five continents.

William Gates Sr, father of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, was a founding partner at Preston Gates & Ellis, which merged with another law firm, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham, to form K&L Gates in 2007.

The court heard that between 2009 and 2011, Aggarwal gave false instructions to accounting staff of the law firm to transfer HK$302 million from the accounts of Hui and Lightbown. About HK$241 million was transferred back into their accounts.

Between 2007 and 2011, Aggarwal approached 92 potential investors and falsely claimed that he had business opportunities for them, but the investors had to deposit money with the firm to show that they had sufficient funds.

A total of HK$8.1 billion was deposited with the firm, including HK$1.4 billion in overseas remittances.

Aggarwal paid HK$7.6 billion to the investors as interest for the deposits.

But he forged signatures and ordered accounting staff to transfer money into a dormant client's account and then funnelled out the money.

Hundreds of millions of dollars were transferred to casinos, his relatives in India and other companies, some of which he served as a director.

Aggarwal born in Hong Kong to an Indian family and studied at Island School before going to the University of Hull to complete a bachelor of law degree.

He studied in the professional legal qualification programme at University of Hong Kong before he was admitted as a solicitor in 1992 and specialised in commercial law.

Aggarwal set up his own law firm in 1999 before joining K&L Gates.

The court heard the investigation began when police initially spotted suspicious transactions totalling HK$16 million. Aggarwal was arrested in June 2011

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...gs-biggest-fraud-case-sentenced-12-years-jail

 

[chonburifc]

Suggest a folder dedicated to ah nehs threads.

Too many ah Neh threads in this folder liaoz.

Any suggestion for folder name. Call Ah neh folder can?

 

[Poomer]

Why ah neh always appearing in HK courts? Wheres the illiterate fuck HK14k anyway?

 

[Asterix]

Ah Neh DOG-TAR misbehaving, this time in Canada.

Former North York General anesthesiologist Dr George Doodnaught was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years imprisonment for sexually assaulting 21 of his female patients.

As Doodnaught, 65, was handcuffed and arrested from court, a few of the women clapped.

His conduct was “reprehensible in the extreme,” Superior Court Justice David McCombs said in his decision. “It must be condemned in the strongest terms.”

In November, Doodnaught was found guilty of sexually assaulting 21 women between the ages of 25 and 75 while they were semi-conscious on the operating table.

All but one of the women were undergoing surgeries at North York General Hospital between 2006 and 2010. Doodnaught was a popular anesthesiologist at the hospital for 26 years.

The Crown had asked for 12 to 15 years imprisonment during the sentencing hearing earlier this month. The defence suggested eight to 10 years.

“I am very happy with the conviction, however I am very disappointed with the sentencing,” said the patient whose complaint launched the criminal investigation. She cannot be identified due to a publication ban. “Ten years, as far as I’m concerned, is insulting.”

The judge made his decision based on the law, and the laws need to change, she said.

During the trial, her testimony and the reading of her victim impact statement, she says, Doodnaught did not look at her once.

“He’s a coward,” she said.

In his lengthy judgment released in November following the 76-day trial, McCombs found that Doodnaught took advantage of his position in the operating room, concealed behind a sterile screen that separates patients’ upper and lower bodies.

Hidden from the doctors and nurses, Doodnaught fondled the breasts of sedated female patients, kissed their mouths and forced them to perform oral sex and masturbation, McCombs found.

In his sentencing decision, McCombs noted that in the months before Doodnaught was arrested the assaults escalated. Fifteen of the 21 assaults occurred in the past six months, four in the 10 days before his arrest.

Doodnaught’s lawyer, Brian Greenspan, said Doodnaught and his family are disappointed by the convictions. They are appealing the convictions but not the sentence.

The notice of appeal filed with the court argues that McCombs erred in finding the testimony of the complainants plausible and “rejected evidence inconsistent with guilt.”

That includes the defence submission that it was impossible for Doodnaught to have committed the assaults based on the proximity of operating room staff and the positioning of medical equipment.

A bail hearing for Doodnaught’s release pending appeal is scheduled for Wednesday morning at the Court of Appeal.

In his sentencing decision, McCombs noted the “great personal courage and dignity” of the victims and their families, and the “profound psychological impact” they suffered.

Patients had made three formal sexual assault complaints to North York General Hospital about Doodnaught before a complaint in 2010 sparked a criminal investigation.

The hospital’s chief of anesthesiology was aware of the complaints but the senior hospital administration only learned of them after the 2010 complaint was made, McCombs found in his ruling.

Serious complaints about staff, including allegations of sexual assault, are now being reported directly to the hospital’s CEO.

Doodnaught, whose medical licence is suspended, is set to face a disciplinary hearing with the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. A date has not yet been set.

In the notice of hearing, the College notes that the mandatory penalty for sexually abusing a patient is a revoked licence and public reprimand.

While there were only 21 patients involved in the criminal case, the notice of hearing contains allegations that Doodnaught sexually abused 30 patients.

One of the alleged sexual assaults dates back to 1992.

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2..._gets_10_years_in_jail_for_sex _assault.html

 

[Asterix]

Remember, DONOT any how touch OK!

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[Brubeck]

Never trust pundeks.