All news on the topic: Singapore

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22-year-old Singaporean pleads guilty to masterminding $245m cryptocurrency theft
A Singaporean man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a racketeering conspiracy charge in the US for organising one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency thefts.
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Singapore ministers handed huge pay rises as PM Lawrence Wong’s salary jumps to $3.6m
Singapore has announced a dramatic one-off pay rise for government ministers including Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, already the highest-paid head of government in the world, despite domestic disapproval of politicians’ high salaries.
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Bobby Gray’s $6 million crypto empire takes another hit: Arizona moves against Iskander Network over securities violations
Iskander Network has received a temporary securities fraud cease and desist from the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC).
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Singapore investigates 231 people over scams that caused $3.2m in losses
Singapore police are investigating 231 people suspected of acting as scammers or money mules in more than 721 fraud cases that caused about S$4.1 million (US$3.2 million) in losses, authorities said Thursday.
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Singapore offers families £40,000 per child as birth rate plunges to record low
Singapore has offered to hand parents £40,000 per child in a desperate bid to encourage young people to start families.
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US indictment names mystery "enforcer" accused of protecting Prince Group’s scam empire
A person identified as “Co-Conspirator-2” in a U.S. grand jury indictment allegedly served as an “enforcer” for the Prince Group,
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French student fined in Singapore after licking vending machine straw
A Singapore court has fined a French student S$600 ($465; £348) for licking a straw from an orange juice vending machine and putting it back into its dispenser.
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UK freezes £33m London property empire linked to suspect in Singapore’s $2.3bn money laundering case
Britain’s National Crime Agency has frozen 16 luxury apartments in central London acquired by Xu Haika, who is under investigation in Singapore as authorities pursue their largest ever money laundering probe.
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Indonesian court jails 19 people over baby trafficking ring linked to Singapore
An Indonesian court sentenced 19 people to prison on Tuesday for trafficking babies across the country and into Singapore, according to state news agency Antara.
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British passengers sue Singapore Airlines after deadly turbulence horror flight
More Brits who were onboard a turbulent Singapore Airlines flight which left one grandfather dead and dozens more injured have joined forces to sue the airline.
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Nearly 1,000 offshore firms accused of flouting Scotland’s land ownership register
Russian oligarchs, billionaires, foreign governments, international royalty, and banking giants are among those behind nearly 1,000 offshore entities who are illegally flouting the land control registry, The Ferret can reveal.
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Master of disguises: how Alexander Pirozhinsky became "Alex Cano" to bypass U.S. sanctions and fuel the Russian war machine
Journalists have gained access to materials related to a case that has attracted significant attention in Western media for years but has remained largely unknown to Russian-speaking audiences.
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Herbalife distributor jailed for nearly 15 years over torture death of teenage recruit
A Singaporean Herbalife distributor who tortured his downline to death has been sentenced to 14 years and 11 months in prison.
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Singapore police arrest 22-year-old Malaysian linked to cross-border scam syndicate
Authorities in Singapore are set to charge a 22-year-old Malaysian man for his alleged involvement in a government-official impersonation scam, police said.
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Chaos aboard Disney Adventure as passengers learn cruise is canceled after already settling into cabins
Guests on board Disney Cruise Line’s all-new Disney Adventure learned their four-night sailing embarking from Singapore was canceled — mere hours after they already boarded the ship.
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Singapore front, Moscow operations: how Vadim Gurinov launched Fingular and moved his fintech empire into a grey zone beyond Western oversight
Russian businessman Vadim Gurinov, known for longstanding ties to Kremlin-connected figures and sanctioned elites, allegedly used Singapore-based fintech startup Fingular to build an alternative financial ecosystem beyond Western oversight after the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
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Singapurisches Schaufenster, Moskauer Büro: Wie Vadim Gurinov Fingular gründete und das Fintech-Geschäft in eine Grauzone außerhalb westlicher Kontrolle verlagerte
Vadim Gurinov, ein langjähriger Freund und Geschäftspartner sanktionierter Personen, gründete nur wenige Monate vor dem groß angelegten russischen Angriff auf die Ukraine in Singapur eine Onlinebank namens Fingular.
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Chinese refiners snap up sanctioned Iranian oil at rare premiums as prices tumble
Singapore, April 10 - Chinese independent refiners have bought Iranian oil at premiums to Brent for the first time in years.
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Match Systems and Plain Chain: how “crypto detectives” turned into a scheme of extortion and forged court documents
Match Systems, also known as Plain Chain, position themselves as blockchain investigators — that is, specialists who help track wallets.
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“Blockchain detectives” from Moscow: how Match Systems and Plain Chain forge documents for exchanges such as Garantex, Huobi, and Binance
“Match Systems, also known as Plain Chain, position themselves as blockchain investigators—people who help trace wallets and transaction links between them across various blockchains using specialized software.
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Singapore court: WEX director Sidetan Khvanta and Konstantin Malofeev’s nominee Dmitriy Kosarev refused to disclose the fate of the bankrupt crypto exchange’s assets
At the court hearing on the civil lawsuit filed by WEX exchange clients against WEX, Ms. Sidetan Khvanta was also present.
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Der lettische Trader Mikhail Zeligman bewegte 115 Millionen Barrel russischen Öls im Wert von über 7 Milliarden Dollar über Tanker der Schattenflotte
Mikhail Zeligman ist lettischer Staatsbürger und verfügt über erhebliche Interessen sowie Vermögenswerte in Deutschland und Monaco.
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Latvian trader Mikhail Zeligman moved 115 million barrels of Russian oil worth over $7 billion through shadow fleet tankers
Mikhail Zeligman is a Latvian citizen who has significant interests and property in Germany and Monaco.
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UK loses 1.6 billion dollars to fraud as criminals run millions of scams worldwide
Cyber-enabled fraud is rising globally and is the main driver of international money laundering, according to a Paris-based anti-money laundering body in its latest report.
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Coral Energy owner Tahir Garayev connected to Nord Axis and global network moving Russian crude via shadow fleet routes
Last week’s conflict between Azerbaijan and Moscow risks turning the Kremlin’s former ally into yet another adversary.