A pig farmers' son who grew up to own $1m Bentley, gold trader now charged with 10 counts of cheating

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A pig farmers' son who grew up to own $1m Bentley, gold trader now charged with 10 counts of cheating
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He had gone missing on Jan 18, 2013, and was arrested on Feb 2, 2023, when he returned to Singapore.

On March 6, 2013, more than 180 people at Hong Lim Park signed a petition to be submitted to the Prime Minister’s Office.

The charges arose from investigations by CAD into a gold investment buyback scheme offered by TGG between 2011 and 2013. Lee had allegedly cheated 10 investors of Discovery into believing that their investments were guaranteed by warrants issued by TGG, resulting in the 10 investors disbursing $157,000 to Discovery, which the investors would not have done had they not been so deceived.For each count of the offence of cheating, persons convicted face imprisonment of up to 10 years and a fine.The son of pig farmers, Lee took over his family’s animal pharmaceutical business when he was 20.

"However, we were quite poor until about 10 years ago because my father, who died when I was 17, was a gambler. My parents used to tell me I must never gamble."

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