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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 yearsin jail in a cheating case inv
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.
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 founder jailed over fraud scandal that shocked Singapore
The founder of commodity trader Hin Leong has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for his role as “mastermind” of a trade finance fraud scheme that sent shockwaves through the trade finance sector.
S'pore oil tycoon OK Lim, 82, sentenced to 17.5 years' jail for cheating offences
At one point, the disgraced oil tycoon purportedly owed 23 banks a total of S$5.5 billion. Lim Oon Kuin, 82, who is the founder of collapsed oil trading firm Hin Leong Trading, was sentenced to 17.5 years' jail over a cheating case involving at least S$150 million.
Hin Leong founder O.K. Lim gets 17½ years’ jail for cheating, forgery
The offences are said to have "tarnished Singapore’s hard-earned reputation" in oil trading. Read more at straitstimes.com.
17.5 years jail for OK Lim in one of Singapore’s ‘most serious cases of trade financing fraud’
The tycoon will appeal against the sentence, and his lawyer says that his $4 million bail has also been extended
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.
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 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.
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
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Lim Oon Kuin sentenced to 17.5 years in jail for orchestrating massive trade financing fraud
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A Singapore oil magnate faces prison in a major fraud case over financing trade
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