Missing Singapore lawyer, found in Germany

[halsey02]

No he was exposed after hanging Papaya flag outside his house on national day...

He tried to recite the pledge in GERMAN at 8.22pm...it sucks & it irritated Gretchen Kraus next door, that she reported him to the German police...

 

[scroobal]

Singapore has extradition treaty with many countries but seldom bothers to follow up. If they were keen they would have a website listing the photos and details of all those who have absconded. The belief is that there people close to the powers if brought back may say more things than good.

His family, friends or his partners must be behind this. Sometimes if you want to give up, the preference is thru extradition rather than waive the extradition process so that you might end with punishment that is less harsh.

For instance, for murder, if extradition is followed, you cannot be hanged if you return from most western countries but if you waive the extradition process, you can be hanged.

For lesser cases, you might want to build this impression that justice cannot be done in Singapore so you go thru the wayang process of extradition but you have actually run out of money, the hunger pangs for laksa and still look good in the eyes of your believers.

Dumbassed lawyer don't even know SGP got extradition treaty with Germany....

After Nick Leeson case, he never learn?

Call himself a lawyer some more...

 

[Masamune Date]

Apr 18, 2011

Runaway lawyer gets 9 years for CBT, cheating

By Elena Chong

Tan Cheng Yew (above, in a October 22, 2009 file photo) was convicted of criminal breach of trust and cheating. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW

LAWYER Tan Cheng Yew who was extradited to Singapore in 2009 after being on the run for six years was jailed for nine years on Monday for criminal breach of trust and cheating.

District Judge Hamidah Ibrahim backdated the 43-year-old's sentence to Oct 22, 2009.

In convicting him of two charges of misappropriating $1.5 million and $1.94 million and cheating two sums involving $1.4 million, the judge said she did not accept the defence arguments.

Tan, a one-time debater of the National University of Singapore, had maintained in his defence that he misappropriated the money in his personal capacity and not as attorney to a Tan family.

But the prosecution's case is that he had committed the offences as the family's lawyer, and had abused the trust by converting large amounts of money to his own use.

Tan could have been jailed for up to 10 years for criminal breach of trust as an attorney, and up to seven years for cheating. A pre-trial conference has been scheduled for Tan's two remaining charges of CBT and cheating involving about $934,000.

Case background:

The court heard that Tan, upon receipt of the $1.5 million cheque which was a loan to the Central Christian Church to buy a piece of land, deposited it into a fixed deposit account with DBSBank in 2001.

He subsequently used the amount as security for a personal loan.

Evidence was also led by the prosecution that Tan deceived Mr Tan Kwee Khoon, a member of the Tan family, into believing that it was a legal requirement in loan agreements for borrowers to repay the loan to the lenders commencing from the first year. He cheated Mr Tan of $480,000 and used it to settle his personal debts.

Tan had similarly used another $900,000 he deceived to settle his gambling debts.

 

[moolightaffairs]

Apr 18, 2011

Runaway lawyer gets 9 years for CBT, cheating

By Elena Chong

Tan Cheng Yew (above, in a October 22, 2009 file photo) was convicted of criminal breach of trust and cheating. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW

look like MBT!!! hehehe!!!

 

[Windsor]

"after we hang the banks on the tree, we should hang the lawyers. "

You are wrong there. First hang the greedy landlords, then those bloodsucking bankers and then the crooked lawyers.

 

[drifter]

don't like that la friend, he also like you, you know, grew up in a strong christian family

somehow S A Tan got the better part of him

a christain steal from another christain whose money suppose to use for buliding church ...hahahaha ..this christain lawyer knows that buliding church is to make money ..thats why hes saving mankind .....good job .

 

[Muthukali]

money can make a human gone wild.

 

[drifter]

money can make a human gone wild.

not money ...theres nothing bad about money ...its only human greed .

 

[/ASIA\]

Apr 28, 2011

IN THE ST NEWSPAPER TODAY
Stiffer sentence sought for fugitive lawyer

Tan was jailed for nine years for pocketing clients' money and cheating. -- ST FILE PHOTO

BOTH the prosecution and defence are appealing in the case of lawyer Tan Cheng Yew, who was found guilty of four charges involving a total of $4.8 million.

The 43-year-old Malaysian, who had been on the run for six years until his extradition from Germany in 2009, was sentenced to nine years' jail last week.

The prosecution filed a notice of appeal against the sentence on Tuesday while the defence lodged one yesterday against conviction.

The prosecution wants a heavier sentence.

Tan's lawyer, Senior Counsel Michael Khoo, told The Straits Times he had been instructed by his client to appeal on points of law.

The Singapore permanent resident and one-time debater at the National University of Singapore was practising as a partner at Tan Cheng Yew & Partners and Tan Jin Hwee, Eunice & Lim Choo Eng at the time of the offences.

ELENA CHONG

Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times

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[shOUTloud]

Still want to argue. Hope the fucker gets bashed in Changi Hotel.