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Yoshitsune Minamoto
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Singapore
Apr 8, 2010
Man denies giving drugs
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<!-- end left side bar --> <!-- story content : start --> THE bank officer at the centre of a coroner's inquiry denied he had supplied prescription drugs to American exchange student Scott Jared Monat, 20, who died in a hostel room at the National University of Singapore in March last year. Mr Jason Ho Zhi Yuan, 29, testified on Thursday that he had 'no clue' why friends of Mr Monat would allege that he had supplied drugs to the American in return of sexual favours. 'I'm not gay and it was Scott, who was obsessed with me,' said Mr Ho, who has been working as a finance manager since 2008 after returning from a 10-year stay in New York. He also denied claiming to be Jewish and had spoken Yiddish so as to get close to the Jewish American student.
He is a Buddhist and claimed that Mr Monat had 'showed off' the drugs he had brought back from Thailand after visiting Bangkok in February with Mr Yong Xunkai, 24, a student at the Nanyang Technological University. Mr Ho also denied that he had given a drug to another American student Gal Parelman. There was no animosity between them and he said he was unable to explain why she would accuse him of being a drug pusher. Mr Monat died of complications arising from his intake of the drugs and alcohol. Although some of his medications were prescribed by doctors in the United States before he came to Singapore in January last year, Mr Yong had testified that Mr Monat abused other prescription drugs that he said came from Mr Ho.
Apr 8, 2010
Man denies giving drugs
<!-- by line --> By Khushwant Singh
<!-- end by line -->
<!-- end left side bar --> <!-- story content : start --> THE bank officer at the centre of a coroner's inquiry denied he had supplied prescription drugs to American exchange student Scott Jared Monat, 20, who died in a hostel room at the National University of Singapore in March last year. Mr Jason Ho Zhi Yuan, 29, testified on Thursday that he had 'no clue' why friends of Mr Monat would allege that he had supplied drugs to the American in return of sexual favours. 'I'm not gay and it was Scott, who was obsessed with me,' said Mr Ho, who has been working as a finance manager since 2008 after returning from a 10-year stay in New York. He also denied claiming to be Jewish and had spoken Yiddish so as to get close to the Jewish American student.
He is a Buddhist and claimed that Mr Monat had 'showed off' the drugs he had brought back from Thailand after visiting Bangkok in February with Mr Yong Xunkai, 24, a student at the Nanyang Technological University. Mr Ho also denied that he had given a drug to another American student Gal Parelman. There was no animosity between them and he said he was unable to explain why she would accuse him of being a drug pusher. Mr Monat died of complications arising from his intake of the drugs and alcohol. Although some of his medications were prescribed by doctors in the United States before he came to Singapore in January last year, Mr Yong had testified that Mr Monat abused other prescription drugs that he said came from Mr Ho.
