Sikh man is guilty of misappropriating thousand dollars in singapore
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was a lawyer by profession
He continued to act as an individual’s advocate even after he was dropped in 2018. The Straits Times reported that a man named Zulkifli Osman hired GCP in December 2010 for the sale of his late father’s flat, which was sold in 2011 and the firm received a proceeds of over S$356,000. It was agreed between Zulkifli and Singh that out of that amount, Zulkifli’s brother would receive S$138,876.50.
Subsequently, Zulkifli deposited S$138,876 into GCP’s client account to be kept in escrow on 15 December 2011 as his brother’s share of the sale proceeds. But between December 20, 2011 and May 3, 2012, Singh misappropriated Zulkifli’s funds in GCP’s client account by issuing checks to pay for other matters such as the firm’s office expenses.
Zulkifli made three requests to Singh between August 2012 and July 2014 to withdraw a part of the money. He was unaware that it had been fully spent. Singh then paid Zulkifli S$10,156 using money in the GCP client account of other clients of the firm. In June 2015, Zulkifli asked Singh to withdraw the remaining 128,720 Singapore dollars from the funds, but he failed to deliver the money.
Lawyer sentenced to 19 years in a case
After being struck off the company rolls in 2018, Singh agreed to represent an individual in divorce proceedings. The man, unaware that Singh’s name had been removed, paid him S$1,750 between September 7 and 27, 2019. In 2020, the man asked Singh for a full refund as he no longer wanted his services, after which Singh returned $1,000 to him. Singh is expected to be sentenced on August 24. The Straits Times reported that Singh is the second former lawyer to be convicted of criminal breach of trust this week. Earlier, lawyer Jeffrey Ong Su Oun was jailed for 19 years for misappropriating around S$76 million from his clients.
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