Crime & the Panama Papers

CRIME doesn’t pay. Tell that to Lim Choon Beng, 30, who raped a woman three times in 20 minutes. For his crime in 2013, he was sentenced to almost 17 years in jail and 22 strokes of the cane yesterday (May 10). The High Court also heard about a 45-year-old man who was charged yesterday for raping his maid – twice in six hours, also in 2013. He said it was consensual.

And to Maryani Usman Utar, 30, the Indonesian maid who was arrested for strangling a one-year-old in her charge on Sunday. She was charged yesterday and could be jailed up to 10 years if found guilty.

And to Lee Wai Leong, 41, the intellectually disabled man who very ably flung a tabby from the 13th floor of an Yishun flat, killing it. He’s pled guilty and faces up to 18 months in jail and a $15,000 fine.

The papers are full of crimes today but not just the violent kind. There was also a break-in in Lorong Chuan, a Hari Raya scam, and someone who tried to swim into Singapore illegally.

But the top news item goes to a statement issued jointly by the Ministry of Finance and Monetary Authority of Singapore, who said they are investigating the latest leak in the Panama Papers, which includes thousands of offshore accounts linked to Singapore. So far, 5,869 offshore entities, 6,116 officers, 1,315 intermediaries, and 5,728 addresses have been shown up in the Singapore file – though, many familiar-sounding names appear to not be what they seem, reported TODAY.

The Law Society, for instance, was one of the organisations identified but it replied yesterday that its name was misused. Another company, the Temasek Wellness Investments, is not linked to Temasek Holdings, said the state-owned investment firm. DBS and OCBC have also been implicated and the banks responded yesterday saying they are in compliance with law and do not support “concealment techniques”.

 

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