A Singapore district court on Thursday denied bail to the brother and girlfriend of an alleged syndicate leader. The syndicate purportedly led a group based in Cambodia that targeted Singaporeans in scams and laundered the proceeds in Malaysia.
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The losses from the scams amount to tens of millions of dollars, a prosecutor told the court in seeking no bail for the pair.
Ng Wei Kang, 33, and Christy Neo Wei En, 29, both Singaporeans, have been remanded since September 11.
They face one charge each of being a member of a locally linked organised criminal group around September 9, with at least 11 others.
Ng’s charge states that he knew that one of the purposes of the group was to obtain financial benefits via the commission of serious offences by its members in Singapore.
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Neo’s charge states that she knew the group’s members had committed cheating offences in Singapore.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Cheah Wenjie told the court that the pair, along with a third co-accused, Lester Ng, had a strong connection to the syndicate leadership, who remain at large, and argued they posed a high risk of collusion or witness tampering if released on bail.