Gabriel Gan Tze Wee

The brokers include Gabriel Gan Tze Wee and Henry Tjoa Sang Hi, who had gone to the extent of getting Soh a disposable phone.

“I relish the part where someone wants to communicate, so obviously, I would reciprocate,” said Soh.

"You don’t have to prove what happened. You just have to answer the prosecution’s case,” Sreenivasan said to Soh.

"Nobody came back. Not even him. None of us," Gan told the court.

"There was a whole bunch of you playing your own games, manipulating the market. Agree or disagree?" asked Sreenivasan. "Disagree," said Gan.

For more than three years in the run-up to the penny stock crash back in October 2013, a group of brokers had actively executed trading orders supposedly instructed by John Soh Chee Wen and Quah Su-Ling.