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.
Singapore Hin Leong founder O.K. Lim sentenced to 17-1/2 years in jail, media reports
The founder of collapsed Singaporean oil trading firm Hin Leong Trading Pte Ltd was sentenced to 17-1/2 years in prison on Monday for cheating global bank HSBC and abetting forgery, local media reported.
Disgraced Singapore oil tycoon sentenced to nearly 18 years for fraud
The founder of a failed Singapore oil trading company was sentenced Monday to nearly 18 years in jail for cheating banking giant HSBC out of millions of dollars in one of the country's most serious cases of fraud.
Singapore sentences O.K. Lim to over 17 years in prison
The Hing Leong founder, real name Lim Oon Kuin, was earlier convicted of two charges of cheating HSBC and one count of abetting forgery.
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.
Hin Leong founder O.K. Lim gets 17½ years’ jail for cheating, forgery
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