Low Taek Jho (Jho Low)

(Jan 9): Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low, was “orchestrating the transactions” at four accounts at Falcon Private Bank in Singapore, although the beneficial owner was one Eric Tan Kim Loong, Singapore prosecutors said last week.

SINGAPORE (Jan 6): He was the leader of one of the largest mass defections in private banking history, with more than 100 staff following him from RBS Coutts Bank in the thick of the global credit crisis to create a financial phenomenon in Singapore at a

SINGAPORE (Jan 5): Jens Fred Sturzenegger, the former branch manager of the now-defunct Falcon Private Bank Singapore, has been slapped with 16 charges related to the on-going probe on money laundering activities linked to Malaysian sovereign wealth fund

SINGAPORE (Jan 4): Yeo Jiawei, a former BSI banker found guilty of attempting to tamper with witnesses in a Singapore probe linked to 1Malaysia Development Bhd, will appeal his conviction and sentence, according to his lawyer.

SINGAPORE (Dec 23): Singapore has shown considerable success in turning itself into a wealth management hub ever since it set out to do so in the early 2000s. Paradoxically, it is the city state’s reputation for having a clean and well-regulated financi

SINGAPORE (Dec 22): Ex-BSI wealth planner Yeo Jiawei has been sentenced to a total of 30 months’ jail after he was convicted on Wednesday on all four charges of witness tampering.

SINGAPORE (Dec 21): Former BSI bank wealth planner Yeo Jiawei has been found guilty of hindering investigations into 1MDB-related fund flows by tampering with witnesses.

SINGAPORE (Dec 16): Yvonne Seah, a former private banker with BSI bank, was sentenced to two weeks jail for forging letters vouching for the good standing of her former client Low Taek Jho, the mastermind of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal

SINGAPORE (Dec 16): Yvonne Seah, a former private banker with BSI bank, on Friday morning pleaded guilty to two charges of forging letters to vouch for the good standing of her client Low Taek Jho, mastermind of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) sca

(Dec 14): A US effort to seize about US$1 billion ($1.43 billion) in assets allegedly acquired with funds siphoned from 1Malaysia Development Bhd. is moving ahead over objections from relatives of the Malaysian financier at the centre of the scandal.