[ad_1]
SINGAPORE – Two lawyers were charged in district court on Thursday (September 10) of intentionally attempting to obstruct the course of justice.
Wee Hong Shern, 33, and Ong Peng Boon, 64, are charged with committing the crime on May 10 last year.
A search of the Ministry of Law website showed that Ong is a director of the law firm Ong & Co, while Wee is the sole owner of Adeptus Law Corporation.
A third man, Selva Kumar Subramaniam, 42, who is said to be linked to their cases, also received a similar charge Thursday.
Selva Kumar is accused of intentionally attempting to obstruct the court of law by providing information to Wee, who was then her defense attorney, between 10 am and 11.51 am on May 10 of last year.
According to court documents, the information was allegedly linked to an investigation by Singapore Customs.
It was said to have been sent to alert a union that deals with cigarettes without paying tax to clear its facilities of the products.
Wee is said to have texted Ong around 11:52 a.m. M.
He is accused of saying, “I spoke with Ah Boon to update. Basically: Buffalo is broken. The factory is safe for now, but he cautions that it is only a matter of time before they find out where he is as they have Ah’s SD cars. Boon’s vehicle.
“They can track buffalo and find the factory eventually. So he said to erase everything from the factory as soon as possible. Evidence has come out that ST has been paid for by the man from China. His Zello phone was seized and he did not have time to erase them. convos. Bail opened at 55K “.
It was not clear from court documents what the text message was referring to. The documents also did not reveal any more details about the cigarette case or Ah Boon’s identity.
Ong is accused of sending the message to a man known only as Tan Hock Ann, whose details were also not disclosed in court documents.
The three Singaporeans were offered a $ 10,000 bond on Thursday and their pre-trial conference will be held on October 5.
Criminals convicted of willfully obstructing the course of justice can be imprisoned for up to seven years and fined.
[ad_2]
