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Hin Leong founder O.K. Lim given 17 and half year jail term for cheating, forgery
SINGAPORE - Hin Leong founder Lim Oon Kuin was sentenced on Nov 18 to 17 years and six months jail for three charges of cheating and forgery in what prosecutors described as “one of the most serious cases of trade financing fraud that have ever been prosecuted in Singapore”.
Hin Leong oil tycoon OK Lim, 82, sentenced to 17.5 years' jail
SINGAPORE: Lim Oon Kuin, the elderly founder of collapsed oil trading firm Hin Leong Trading, was on Monday (Nov 18) sentenced to 17-and-a-half years in jail in a cheating case involving at least US$111.
Singapore oil tycoon OK Lim sentenced to 17 years in jail
Singapore oil tycoon Lim Oon Kuin has been sentenced to 17 and a half years in jail for cheating HSBC Holdings Plc and instigating forgery in a case that has shaken the city-state’s commodity-trading community and left banks nursing hefty losses.
Singapore oil tycoon OK Lim sentenced to nearly 18 years for cheating HSBC out of millions of dollars
Photo by Reuters His firm, Hin Leong Trading, was among Asia's biggest oil trading companies before its sudden and dramatic collapse in 2020.Sentencing him to 17 and a half years in jail, State Courts judge Toh Han Li said he agreed with the prosecution that the offenses had the potential to undermine confidence in Singapore's oil trading industry.
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Former Singapore tycoon OK Lim gets 17-and-a-half years in prison for cheating HSBC out of US$111.7m
Lim Oon Kuin, the 82-year-old founder of the collapsed Singapore oil trading firm Hin Leong Trading, was today sentenced to 17-and-a-half years in prison
Hin Leong founder O.K. Lim gets 17½ years’ jail for cheating, forgery
It was “one of the most serious cases of trade financing fraud that have ever been prosecuted in Singapore”. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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