SINGAPORE: Su Jianfeng , the last of 10 people convicted in the S$3 billion money laundering case , has been deported to Cambodia. He was deported on Jul 26 and barred from re-entering Singapore, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said on Sunday (Jul 28) in response to queries from CNA. “Su is the last of the 10 accused persons arrested on Aug 15, 2023, and convicted and sentenced for money laundering and other offences, to be deported,” added ICA.
Su, a 36-year-old Vanuatu national with roots in Fujian, China , was given 17 months’ jail on Jun 10. He was the last of 10 offenders to be sentenced in the multibillion-dollar money laundering probe in Singapore that cast a light on foreign nationals buying up luxury properties in the country. The case, which concluded in June, involved billions of dollars worth of assets such as hard cash, luxury properties, branded goods, cryptocurrency and alcohol .
About S$944 million (US$697 million) in assets seized in relation to the 10 criminals was forfeited to the state . Su’s jail term was the longest of the nine men and one woman prosecuted over the case, where illegal proceeds from Southeast Asian gambling centres aimed at Chinese punters were converted into luxury goods and properties in Singapore’s priciest neighbourhoods. Su had pleaded guilty to one charge each of possessing S$550,903 in criminal benefits and fraudulently using a property sale contract to explain the source of about S$2 million deposited into his Maybank account.
Another 12 charges were taken into consideration for sentencing. About S$187 million worth of assets linked to Su or held under his wife’s name have been seized including cash, properties, vehicles, luxury goods, cryptocurrency and alcohol. This is among the highest across the 10 offenders in the probe.
Su has agreed to have at least 95 per cent of the seized assets forfeited to the state. DEPORTED TO CAMBODIA, JAPAN, UK Including Su, eight individuals who were convicted were deported from Singapore to Cambodia. The others were Zhang Ruijin, Su Baolin, Su Haijin, Su Wenqiang, Wang Baosen, Chen Qingyuan and Lin Baoying.
Cambodia authorities later expelled Zhang from the country . The country’s General Department of Immigration did not specify where Zhang was deported to but noted he holds a passport from Saint Kitts and Nevis, a tiny island nation in the Caribbean. The remaining convicts, Vang Shuiming and Wang Dehai , were deported to Japan and the United Kingdom respectively.
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