BREAKING: Missing lawyer Jeffrey Ong arrested and charged in court
SINGAPORE - Managing partner of JLC Advisors law firm, Jeffrey Ong Su Aun, who is allegedly linked to missing monies totalling more than $33 million, has been arrested and is now facing a cheating charge.
The 41-year-old Singaporean lawyer was caught in Malaysia and was taken back to Singapore on May 30.
He was charged with one count of cheating on June 1 in a Singapore district court.
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These charges are related to the 41-year-old lawyer's earlier case of having allegedly deceived a company called CCJ Investments of S$6 million on Feb 19.
The fresh accusations are the result of three more clients of JLC Advisors having filed reports with the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) over allegedly unauthorised transactions involving S$16 million in their funds held with the boutique law firm.
These allegations followed Catalist-listed precision engineering firm Allied Technologies' complaint to the white-collar crime-buster in late May against Ong and JLC Advisors over S$33 million missing from its escrow account held by the law firm.
Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Nicholas Khoo updated the District Court on these developments when Ong's cheating case came up for mention on Thursday.
DPP Khoo, in an application to have Ong remanded another week, said the CAD needed more time to trace the funds and to look into which transactions were unauthorised.
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