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SINGAPORE – Lim Huey Ching, the daughter of former oil tycoon Lim Oon Kuin, went on trial in the State Courts on Oct 6 for instructing IT staff at Hin Leong Trading to delete data from the computer servers of the now-collapsed company.
The alleged instructions by Lim
After a single charge accusing her of intending to obstruct the course of justice was read to her, Lim said softly: “I didn’t do it.”
Lim and her father and brother Evan Lim Chee Meng were directors of Hin Leong, which ran into serious financial difficulties in early 2020.
The company filed for insolvency protection on April 17, 2020
Lim Oon Kuin, better known as O.K. Lim, was
sentenced to 17½ years’ jail in November 2024
for two counts of cheating and one count of forgery in what prosecutors described as “one of the most serious cases of trade financing fraud that has ever been prosecuted in Singapore”.
He was found to have duped HSBC into disbursing US$111.6 million
(S$144.4 million) to Hin Leong based on two fabricated oil sale contracts. He also instructed a former employee to forge documents for one of the bogus contracts.
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