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SINGAPORE: A lawyer, who owns a law firm, was charged on Friday with paying an underage Vietnamese girl S$300 for sex.
59-year-old Spencer Gwee Hak Theng was charged with one count of paying the 17-year-old girl for her sexual services.
Gwee, who runs Spencer Gwee & Co at Beach Road, allegedly paid her for sex at Four Chain View Hotel at 757 Geylang Road Lorong 39 on 19 July last year.
The prosecution called for Gwee's passport to be surrendered.
But Gwee took issue with this, and said that he needed to travel to Hong Kong and Malaysia for business.
Gwee's lawyer, Mr Lawrence Ang Boon Kong, also said that his client was "a Singapore citizen running his own established law firm and had assets in Singapore."
Mr Ang added that Gwee was not a "flight risk" and was not attempting to escape prosecution.
Gwee is out on a S$10,000 bail.
He will be back in court on 27 July.
If convicted, he can be jailed up to seven years and fined.
- CNA/ck
59-year-old Spencer Gwee Hak Theng was charged with one count of paying the 17-year-old girl for her sexual services.
Gwee, who runs Spencer Gwee & Co at Beach Road, allegedly paid her for sex at Four Chain View Hotel at 757 Geylang Road Lorong 39 on 19 July last year.
The prosecution called for Gwee's passport to be surrendered.
But Gwee took issue with this, and said that he needed to travel to Hong Kong and Malaysia for business.
Gwee's lawyer, Mr Lawrence Ang Boon Kong, also said that his client was "a Singapore citizen running his own established law firm and had assets in Singapore."
Mr Ang added that Gwee was not a "flight risk" and was not attempting to escape prosecution.
Gwee is out on a S$10,000 bail.
He will be back in court on 27 July.
If convicted, he can be jailed up to seven years and fined.
- CNA/ck