Singapore, Lim Oon Kuin

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 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.
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.
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
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 oil tycoon gets 18 yrs 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
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
A Singapore oil magnate faces prison in a major fraud case over financing trade
A Singapore oil magnate has been sentenced to 17.5 years in prison for fraud and forgery in a case that prosecutors said has tarnished the city-state’s reputation as Asia’s leading oil trading hub
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Oil tycoon sentenced to almost 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.
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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Hin Leong founder O.K. Lim given 17 and half year jail term for cheating, forgery
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Founder of Hin Leong Sentenced for Fraud in Oil Trading Scandal
The founder of Hin Leong Trading Pte Ltd, O.K. Lim, was sentenced to 17.5 years in prison for cheating HSBC and abetting forgery. Convicted in May, Lim was involved in a $111.7 million scam in oil ...