Henry Tjoa

In an email to Soh, Quah says he is the owner and caretaker and “she’s taking care of what is [his]”.

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

“A lot of things the [trading representatives] have been saying have been total lies,in order to protect their licenses,”Soh said.

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When Soh asked Gwee to take responsibility, Gwee smiled, shook his head, and walked away

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To coincide with his lies to the authorities, Tjoa had instructed his three assistants to tell untruths when they were questioned.

In an attempt to destroy any evidence that could be used by the CAD against him, Tjoa allegedly threw his disposable phone into the sea at East Coast, and reformatted the CPU of his office desktop.

Under cross examination by Soh’s defence counsel, senior counsel N Sreenivasan of K&L Gates Straits Law, Tjoa admitted that he was aware that market manipulation was going on back in March and April 2013.

For more than two years, Tjoa says and his team of assistants at Phillip took trading orders from Soh and Quah. However, when the crash happened, the shares were forcibly sold off and Tjoa found himself shouldering the losses.