Roland Tan Tong Meng was one of Singapore's most notorious fugitives, long wanted for a murder in October 1969.
The cause of death was a heart attack, and the news was carried in the local Danish tabloid, Ekstra Bladet, as was the funeral two weeks later, with the headline "Mr Big is dead".
The funeral of the 72-year-old former gangland boss at a chapel was streamed live on Facebook to a closed group of Singaporeans, including family friends and gang members.
Messages of condolences were left on a Facebook post announcing his death. They called him "Uncle Roland", and "Ah Gor" (brother). Slide shows were created.
In one of the Facebook posts, a Singaporean thanked Tan for taking care of his family "when we were young and were in dire straits". When contacted, the man, an administrator of the closed group, declined to comment.
Retired Singapore detective Lionel de Souza said of Tan: "Gang members, who called themselves his blood brothers, looked up to him.
"When they got into trouble or owed loan sharks money, they would look for him and he would give them money to pay their debts."
Mr de Souza, 77, was one of three Singapore police officers who had planned to travel to Copenhagen to extradite Tan in 1973.
he was only a ang pai sar soon nia
not even a tua kow
why our Shitimes treat this dog machiam he was an
ex Police Commissioner ah
simisai also must interview him
The cause of death was a heart attack, and the news was carried in the local Danish tabloid, Ekstra Bladet, as was the funeral two weeks later, with the headline "Mr Big is dead".
The funeral of the 72-year-old former gangland boss at a chapel was streamed live on Facebook to a closed group of Singaporeans, including family friends and gang members.
Messages of condolences were left on a Facebook post announcing his death. They called him "Uncle Roland", and "Ah Gor" (brother). Slide shows were created.
In one of the Facebook posts, a Singaporean thanked Tan for taking care of his family "when we were young and were in dire straits". When contacted, the man, an administrator of the closed group, declined to comment.
Retired Singapore detective Lionel de Souza said of Tan: "Gang members, who called themselves his blood brothers, looked up to him.
"When they got into trouble or owed loan sharks money, they would look for him and he would give them money to pay their debts."
Mr de Souza, 77, was one of three Singapore police officers who had planned to travel to Copenhagen to extradite Tan in 1973.
he was only a ang pai sar soon nia
not even a tua kow
why our Shitimes treat this dog machiam he was an
ex Police Commissioner ah
simisai also must interview him
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