Defence lawyer Thong Chee Kun on Wednesday (Feb 24) told the court that his client, Thye Wee Boon, has to take a swab test.
His case has been adjourned to March 3.
Thye was to have faced 19 charges for offences including dealing with the benefits of criminal activities.
To date, the authorities have managed to recover more than $6.4 million of the amount taken in the ruse - the largest single recovery since the formation of the Singapore Police Force s (SPF) anti-scam centre, which was set up in June 2019.
According to the European Union s law enforcement agency Europol, a suspect had taken the identity of a legitimate company and advertised the fast delivery of surgical masks and hand sanitisers.
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has directed the jeweler's community to ensure enhanced due diligence of customers, who are Politically-exposed persons
National
February 10, 2021
KARACHI: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has initiated an inquiry into suspicious bank transactions against the wife of a senior Sindh government senior officer.
NAB’s Executive Board Meeting (EBM) on April 24, 2020, had authorized an inquiry against Aalia Amir, wife of Aamir Khurshid, Managing Director of Lyari Development Authority (LDA), for transactions (sending and getting) in her personal bank account of millions of rupees. These were to and from different business accounts of travel companies, arms dealers and builders.
The NAB sources stated that the inquiry was initiated after receiving Suspicious Transaction Report (STR) from the concerned bank and the State Bank of Pakistan regarding doubtful transactions in the account of Aalia Amir.
2021/01/17 16:56 HSBC is helping Beijing to punish pro-democracy activists and their families in Hong Kong. (Taiwan News image) HSBC is helping Beijing to punish pro-democracy activists and their families in Hong Kong. (Taiwan News image) TAIWAN (Taiwan News) Hongkonger-in-exile Ted Hui (許智峯) recently revealed the explanation given to him by HSBC Holdings CEO Noel Quinn for his frozen accounts and called the bank an accomplice of human rights infringement. The former Hong Kong legislative councilor found his HSBC accounts frozen and his credit card canceled after he announced his exile last December. Soon after, his family also faced the same treatment. Altogether, hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars have been confiscated by the bank.