Ex-law firm manager jailed

[Lu Bu]

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Jan 20, 2010

Ex-law firm manager jailed

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Sally Ang, 28, also admitted to two charges of transferring $100,000 into the account of a company, Suncrest Holdings, belonging to her and her husband - and $90,000 to the Housing Board as partial repayment of her housing loan of her Woodlands flat. -- PHOTO: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE

<!-- story content : start --> A FORMER finance and human resource manager who misappropriated $838,200 from a law firm was jailed a total of five years on Wednesday.
Sally Ang, 28, who faced 49 charges, had admitted to seven charges of criminal breach of trust of $255,000 by transferring the money from Sadique Marican & ZM Amin's bank account to her own bank account. She also admitted to two charges of transferring $100,000 into the account of a company, Suncrest Holdings, belonging to her and her husband - and $90,000 to the Housing Board as partial repayment of her housing loan of her Woodlands flat.

Two partners of the law firm reported to the authorities as well as the Law Society on Nov 22, 2007 that their partner, Zulkiflii Mohd Amin, had disappeared and money had been misappropriated from the firm's accounts. Ang was contacted to help in investigation as she was involved with the keeping the accounts before she left the firm in July that year. Police are looking for Zulkifli who is believed to have fled the country with $6 million of clients' money.

 

[Tadakatsu Honda]

Over $10m squirrelled away

Singapore
Feb 26, 2010

Over $10m squirrelled away

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RUNAWAY lawyer Zulkifli Mohd Amin had moved more than $10 million out of his firm's client's account over a 10-month period in 2007, a sum larger than the $6 million previously thought. These details emerged in a 56-page report by a disciplinary tribunal comprising retired Judge of Appeal L. P. Thean and lawyer Tan Chuan Thye. The tribunal, appointed in August last year by the Chief Justice to formally investigate the case, found Zulkifli guilty of a total of 211 charges of misconduct. Zulkifli was one of three partners of the now-defunct firm of Sadique Marican & ZM Amin. He is not around to face the music, but his partners, Mr Mohd Sadique Ibrahim Marican and Mr Anand Kumar Toofani Beldar, will have to face a Court of Three Judges for breaching accounting rules and failing to safeguard clients' money. Out of the 211 charges against Zulkifli, 208 related to unauthorised withdrawals of funds from the account used to hold clients' money.

Read the full report in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.

 

[jake]

Re: Over $10m squirrelled away

<!-- by line -->Zulkifli Mohd Amin

Mohd Sadique Ibrahim Marican

Anand Kumar Toofani Beldar

Interesting, 2 Malay 1 Indian..

This Malay lawyer, not bad, he got brains, not play guitar type..

And these Malays hire a chinese and not their own race, not bad..

 

[konglanjiaowei]

Runaway lawyer struck off


Aug 6, 2010

Runaway lawyer struck off
Partner in firm also removed from rolls.

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Zulkifli Mohd Amin, who siphoned more than $10 million from his firm was, as expected, struck off the rolls on Friday. -- PHOTO: SADIQUE MARICAN

<!-- story content : start --> RUNAWAY lawyer Zulkifli Mohd Amin, who siphoned more than $10 million from his firm was, as expected, struck off the rolls on Friday. While he was not around to hear his punishment, his two partners, who appeared before a Court of Three Judges to be disciplined and ended up facing different fates.

Mr Mohd Sadique Ibrahim Marican, an equity partner, was also struck off the rolls for what Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong said was a case of 'gross dereliction' in his duties for in failing to supervise the accounts. Another judge, Justice V. K. Rajah, noted at Friday's hearing that by 'sleeping on the job', Mr Sadique had facilitated Zulkifli to carry out 'fraud on a massive scale'.

However, Mr Anand Kumar Toofani Beldar, a salaried partner, was cleared of all charges. The court considered him to be an employee who had no duty to supervise the accounts of the firm. Both men were declared bankrupt in February after they failed to a client of their now defunct firm.