The victim of the fatal Boon Tat Street stabbing managed to turn around a shipping business on the brink of bankruptcy during the 2007-2008 economic crisis. Mr Spencer Tuppani, 38, who was the chief executive
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Serial taxi-cheat fined $8,000 and ordered to compensate 15 taxi driver
SINGAPORE- A serial taxi-cheat was fined $8,000 and ordered to pay compensation of $871.65 after pleading guilty to 10 counts of fare evasion on Tuesday (June 13). Five other charges were taken into consideration. From
Read moreCourt okays seizure of $124m of bankrupt Japanese director’s assets
Before going bankrupt in Japan last year, a Japanese company director parked US$90 million (S$124 million) in assets in three banks here. One bank account was in the name of his wife and son. But
Read moreTwo drug traffickers spared gallows as court amends and convicts them on lesser charge
SINGAPORE – Two Singaporean traffickers were spared capital drug charges after the High Court was not convinced they knew they had two pounds of a granular substance which contained 21.58 g of diamorphine, or pure
Read moreThree dentists and manager charged with submitting fraudulent Medisave claims
Dentists Steven Ang Kiam Hau (left) and Daniel Liew Yaoxiang (right) are accused of 283 and 280 charges respectively.ST PHOTOS: WONG KWAI CHOW SINGAPORE – Three dental surgeons and a manager from a dental company
Read moreThai woman jailed 5½ years for stomping Singaporean boyfriend to death
SINGAPORE – A 43-year-old woman who assaulted her live-in boyfriend and stomped him to death after a quarrel was on Thursday (March 16) sentenced to 5½ years’ jail for culpable homicide. Sukanya Praphuttha, a Thai
Read moreBusinessman ordered to pay $2m in casino losses
Amount is believed to be highest single sum owed that MBS got back in court last year K.C. Vijayan Senior Law Correspondent A premium casino player who once won US$2 million (S$2.9 million) at a
Read moreEx-BSI banker Yeo Jiawei jailed 30 months for witness tampering in 1MDB investigation
SINGAPORE: Former BSI banker Yeo Jiawei was sentenced to 30 months’ jail on Thursday (Dec 22), for tampering with key witnesses in the money laundering investigation linked to Malaysian state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). He
Read moreBritish banker Rurik Jutting denies murder of two women in Hong Kong
The financier accused of the killings of two Indonesian women admitted only to manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility Rurik Jutting, the Cambridge-educated financier accused of murdering two Indonesian women in his apartment. A Cambridge-educated
Read moreProsecution seeks 17 years’ jail and 24 strokes for man who raped woman three times
SINGAPORE – The woman who was raped three times in 20 minutes by a stranger along a stretch of public road broke down on Tuesday when she faced her attacker on the first day of
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