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Singapore businessman faces trial over $1.1bn nickel scam

26th November 2024

By: Bloomberg

  

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An ex-accountant accused of running a billion-dollar nickel scam that rocked Singapore’s business community is on trial on Tuesday on more than 100 charges related to fraud and money laundering.

Prosecutors allege that Ng Yu Zhi, 37, raised money for trades that did not exist. Hundreds of clients, many of them high-profile figures in the city-state, put their money into a $1.1-billion scheme tied to Ng’s Envy Group, which offered investments in nickel trading and touted impressive average quarterly gains of 15%.

Ng, meanwhile, spent millions on funding an extravagant lifestyle, including a three-story villa in a high-end neighborhood and a multi-million-dollar Pagani sportscar.

Singapore police have referred to the scam, carried out between 2020 and 2021, as one of the country’s largest ever investment frauds. It’s also the latest in a series of scandals in the financial and commodities-trading hub, which is now eager to restore a reputation for good governance.

Earlier this month, former oil tycoon Lim Oon Kuin, 82, was handed a 17-and-half year jail sentence for cheating HSBC Holdings and instigating forgery. In October, S. Iswaran became the first ex-cabinet minister to be jailed in almost half a century, after pleading guilty in charges including obstruction of justice.

The law firms representing Ng are Legal Eagles, Nicholas & Tan Partnership, Nine Yards Chambers, R. Ramason & Almenoar. The presiding judge will be Christopher Tan.

A civil trial began on July 30 in Singapore’s High Court.

Edited by Bloomberg

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