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Actor Edwin Goh denies hitting Ukrainian model ex-girlfriend Darina Sheremet​

Singapore-based Ukrainian model Darina Sheremet said her ex-boyfriend Edwin Goh hit her in the face and stole her money. PHOTOS:_DARINA_SHEREMET_,EDWININJA/INSTAGRAM
Suzanne Sng

June 28, 2023

SINGAPORE – Local actor Edwin Goh has denied hitting former girlfriend Darina Sheremet, a Singapore-based Ukrainian model, as well as taking her money.
She had made the accusations after he posted a video on Tuesday, in which he claimed she had been unfaithful to him during their relationship.
Goh, 28, and his current girlfriend, influencer-actress Rachel Wan, 27, were answering questions on their new YouTube channel when he spoke about his ex: “Sometimes things between couples, they don’t work out, but (in) this instance, she was actually unfaithful.”
The former couple broke up in August 2022 after three years together and Goh revealed in March that he was in a new relationship with Wan.
Netizens began commenting on Sheremet’s most recent Instagram post, which was of her 21st birthday celebration on Tuesday, after the video was uploaded.
In the comment section, she was asked if she had cheated on him and she replied: “He hit me in the face, stole my money, etc.”
A few commenters chimed in to say they witnessed him hitting her in Bali and that the police were called.

Sheremet continued to reply to other comments, saying that she had evidence, and also posted on Instagram Stories, writing: “Of the many topics he could have talked about, he chose to bring up why we broke up but decided not to tell the truth.”
“I was not unfaithful and did not cheat on him,” she added. “There is a real reason we broke up. He and many others know that reason and I chose to keep quiet about it in order to not further hurt his career, but I will say this: No woman deserves to be physically beaten or even verbally abused by a man. Ever.”
A couple of hours later, Goh released a lengthy statement on Instagram Stories: “I had chosen to address (my breakup) with the intent of providing some closure on this issue as there were many speculations. I did not mean to disrespect Darina and with hindsight, I realised that I should not have shared publicly as this was a private matter between us.”
He added: “While Darina and I had our disagreements, I did not use physical force on her. Our relationship ended after our argument in Bali.”
He also addressed the money matter, saying: “After we broke up, she was unable to return to Singapore following the expiry of her visa, and I had helped to pack and send her belongings back to her. I had also assisted to deposit her existing cash in Singapore into my account and transferred these to her. Even though we had already broken up, I had just wanted to help her and put the past behind us.”

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However, Sheremet refuted that in another comment on her Instagram account, writing: “I had to beg him for months for my money back that he took. He used the funds to pay the fine for his drink-driving charge and for him to go to the Philippines and I have screenshots that prove the months I had to beg for my own money. It took almost a year and I had to even ask his mum.”
Goh was convicted of drink driving on Oct 13, 2022, and was fined $6,500 and disqualified from driving for three years.
Goh and Wan are moving to Australia on Saturday, he revealed in his Instagram Stories post, and he also said that he would be taking a break.

 

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Singapore Idol ex-judge Ken Lim given 1 more sexual offence charge; 5 alleged victims so far​

Shaffiq Alkhatib
Court Correspondent

Sep 20, 2023

SINGAPORE - Former Singapore Idol judge Ken Lim Chih Chiang was on Wednesday handed one more charge of insulting a woman’s modesty, involving a fifth alleged victim.
Lim, 59, is now accused of six counts of insulting a woman’s modesty and one count of molestation.
He was the executive director of record label Hype Records when he allegedly committed the offences.
For his latest charge, Lim was at the company’s business address in Henderson Road at around 7pm on or around July 25, 2012 when he allegedly uttered the words to a woman: “Are you a virgin...What if I have sex with you right now?”
He was said to be speaking to her about a career in music at the time.
Lim’s pre-trial conference will be on Friday.
Separately, between 1998 and 1999, while at his home, he purportedly played his first alleged victim a porn video which showed a woman engaging in penetrative sex with multiple men.

During the same period at the Hype Records office, he allegedly said to the same woman that she was sexually inexperienced and he could help her with this.
Between 1999 and 2002 at Hype Records, he purportedly asked a second alleged victim whether she was a virgin, how could she write deeper songs if she was sexually inexperienced, whether he could be her first sex partner, and how she pleasured herself sexually.
During that period, he also allegedly asked her to write out her sexual fantasies as homework and offered himself as a sexual partner to fulfil her sexual fantasies.
In 2013, at Hype Records, he allegedly told a third person if she could have sex for nothing, why not have sex for something. He also allegedly made the gesture of unbuckling his belt and removing his belt strap.
Lim was first charged on March 20 with one count of molestation.
He is accused of molesting a 25-year-old woman by touching her breast on Nov 23, 2021, at the Hype Records office.
For each count of insulting a woman’s modesty, an offender can be jailed for up to a year and fined.
And for molestation, an offender can be jailed for up to two years, or fined or caned or receive any combination of such punishments.
Lim cannot be caned as he is over 50 years old.

 

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Singapore Idol ex-judge Ken Lim given 1 more sexual offence charge; 5 alleged victims so far​

Shaffiq Alkhatib
Court Correspondent

Sep 20, 2023

SINGAPORE - Former Singapore Idol judge Ken Lim Chih Chiang was on Wednesday handed one more charge of insulting a woman’s modesty, involving a fifth alleged victim.
Lim, 59, is now accused of six counts of insulting a woman’s modesty and one count of molestation.
He was the executive director of record label Hype Records when he allegedly committed the offences.
For his latest charge, Lim was at the company’s business address in Henderson Road at around 7pm on or around July 25, 2012 when he allegedly uttered the words to a woman: “Are you a virgin...What if I have sex with you right now?”
He was said to be speaking to her about a career in music at the time.
Lim’s pre-trial conference will be on Friday.
Separately, between 1998 and 1999, while at his home, he purportedly played his first alleged victim a porn video which showed a woman engaging in penetrative sex with multiple men.

During the same period at the Hype Records office, he allegedly said to the same woman that she was sexually inexperienced and he could help her with this.
Between 1999 and 2002 at Hype Records, he purportedly asked a second alleged victim whether she was a virgin, how could she write deeper songs if she was sexually inexperienced, whether he could be her first sex partner, and how she pleasured herself sexually.
During that period, he also allegedly asked her to write out her sexual fantasies as homework and offered himself as a sexual partner to fulfil her sexual fantasies.
In 2013, at Hype Records, he allegedly told a third person if she could have sex for nothing, why not have sex for something. He also allegedly made the gesture of unbuckling his belt and removing his belt strap.
Lim was first charged on March 20 with one count of molestation.
He is accused of molesting a 25-year-old woman by touching her breast on Nov 23, 2021, at the Hype Records office.
For each count of insulting a woman’s modesty, an offender can be jailed for up to a year and fined.
And for molestation, an offender can be jailed for up to two years, or fined or caned or receive any combination of such punishments.
Lim cannot be caned as he is over 50 years old.

This kind of fuck face

 

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智强=sex maniac

 

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Lawyers of Ken Lim, S’pore Idol ex-judge, succeed in having his 7 charges heard in separate trials​

Shaffiq Alkhatib
Court Correspondent

Nov 17, 2023

SINGAPORE - Former Singapore Idol judge Ken Lim, who faces seven charges of sex offences involving five women, is expected to undergo five different trials, each involving one alleged victim.
This development came about after District Judge Wong Peck rejected the prosecution’s application for all seven charges to be handled together in one trial.
The defence had objected to the application earlier, arguing that the alleged incidents happened over many years, and it would not be fair to their client to lump them together.
Delivering her decision on Friday, the judge said there would not be practical benefits for a joint trial.
She added she was persuaded by the defence’s arguments, noting that the women did not know each other and that the alleged offences took place over vastly different time periods.
Lim, 59, is accused of sexual offences involving five alleged victims from 1998 to 2021.
He is accused of molesting a 25-year-old woman at the Hype Records office in Henderson Road on Nov 23, 2021. The prosecution said she was then talking to him during a work interview.

He allegedly insulted the modesty of four other women.
Between 1998 and 1999, he allegedly showed a pornographic video to a female artiste under his management, who was between 19 and 21 years old then.
He allegedly told her she was sexually inexperienced and he could help her.

Lim allegedly made lewd remarks to another female artiste under his management between 1999 and 2002. She was then between 18 and 20 years old.
In one instance, he purportedly asked the girl if he could be her first sex partner. He is also accused of offering to be her sexual partner to “fulfil her sexual fantasies” on another occasion.
In July 2012, he allegedly asked a 26-year-old woman: “What if I have sex with you right now?”
The prosecution said she was then talking to him about a career in music.
In 2013, Lim allegedly made sexually-charged remarks to a 24-year-old woman who was an artiste working with him.
According to the prosecution, he allegedly told her “that if she could have sex for nothing, why not have sex for something”. Lim allegedly unbuckled his belt then.
In their submissions, Deputy Public Prosecutors Gail Wong and Sruthi Boppana said Lim got to know the women while he was the director of Hype Records.
The DPPs said he allegedly committed the offences within a work context, against artistes or women he was then engaging.
They told Judge Wong the charges were part of a series of alleged offences of a similar nature.
They had argued that the handling of his charges in a joint trial would limit any prejudice to Lim that may be caused by multiple trials.
In their submissions, the prosecution said: “Crucially, the common thread binding the present charges together is the modus operandi adopted by the accused, showing proximity of purpose.
“From the relationship of the victims with the accused...and the location of the offences - all in the office save for (one charge), it can be reasonably inferred that he committed the offences in his position as the director of Hype Records.”
Lim is represented by Senior Counsel Tan Chee Meng, Mr Paul Loy and Mr Calvin Ong. They objected to the prosecution’s application to combine the seven charges into one trial.
The lawyers stated in their submissions: “The application is a transparent attempt to colour the learned trial judge and prejudice Mr Lim by parading a chorus line of unrelated complainants, each of whom relates to entirely separate alleged incidents.”
The lawyers argued the prosecution was trying to strengthen weak charges by colouring the perception of Mr Lim’s character.
They added: “We submit that this is deliberate, mischievous, and highly prejudicial to Mr Lim.”
The team from Wong Partnership told the judge there was no suggestion any of the complainants were related and/or know of each other.
They added: “The locations in which the alleged offences were supposedly committed are not consistent. Importantly, the supposed modus operandi of the offences are different; neither do the charges all arise from the same offence.”
The defence argued the charges relating to each individual complainant span entirely distinct and separate timelines.
Lim’s pre-trial conference will take place on Dec 8.

 

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‘I owe it to the other girls’: One of Ken Lim’s alleged victims comes forward after 11 years​

Former Singapore Idol judge Ken Lim arriving at State Courts on May 6. ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG

Samuel Devaraj

MAY 06, 2024

SINGAPORE – It was in a record label office in 2012 that former Singapore Idol judge Ken Lim allegedly asked the singer and songwriter if she was a virgin, and what would happen if he had sex with her right then.
Unaware that this was a crime, the woman kept silent for more than a decade.
But, after she was made aware that Lim had been charged over similar offences, she decided to come forward and report the matter to the police.
On May 6, the singer-songwriter took the stand in a trial against Lim.
Lim, who is facing six counts of insulting a woman’s modesty and one count of molestation, is expected to undergo five different trials, each involving one of his five alleged victims.
There is a gag order in place to protect the victims’ identities.
In her opening statement on May 6, Deputy Public Prosecutor Gail Wong said the victim who took the stand that day had met Lim twice in his office in 2012 after being introduced by a mutual contact.

Lim had been the executive director of record label Hype Records at that time.
DPP Wong said the victim had already released her first music album by the time she met Lim, and she had gone to him for music career advice.
Thirteen days after the second meeting, the prosecutor said Lim had asked the victim how she was doing and if she was still traumatised.

“We will show that he was referring to his last meeting with the victim where he had uttered the words ‘are you a virgin’ and ‘what if I have sex with you right now’ in the office carpark,” said DPP Wong.
She added that the victim had told her then boyfriend and present husband, as well as her father and sister, what Lim had said to her after the meeting.

Lim last communicated with her in January 2013, when he told her about a new talent show she should consider, DPP Wong said.
She added: “Around this period, she told her voice coach that Ken Lim was dodgy, and also told her drummer Ken Lim was sleazy to her, as they will testify.”
DPP Wong said the victim was relieved that she had not been molested and did not report the matter. She had not known that uttering sexually inappropriate words is a crime.
The prosecutor said that, without help from Lim, the victim released a second album, started her own music school and wrote other songs.
She said that it was only in June 2023, when she saw a news article on Lim’s charges over saying sexually insulting words to other women, that she realised what he had said to her was a crime, and she lodged a police report on that same day.
DPP Wong said the victim had flown in from London, where she is now based, “to give evidence because, in her words to her sister: ‘Maybe I owe it to myself and all the other girls... now that I am older and wiser’”.
Lim is represented by a team of lawyers from WongPartnership including Senior Counsel Tan Chee Meng, Mr Paul Loy and Mr Samuel Navindran.
At the beginning of the hearing on May 6, one of the issues raised was whether the alleged victim should be giving evidence in-camera, which would mean that the public would not be able to sit in the courtroom as she testifies.
According to the Criminal Procedure Code, if an accused is charged with a sexual offence, the court must order that the evidence of a witness who is an alleged victim be given in private, if the victim does not want to testify in open court.
The court also has the discretion to hold any hearing in private.

Arguing for in-camera testimony, DPP Wong said insulting one’s modesty is now considered a sexual offence following amendments to the law that came into effect in 2020.
She added that the alleged victim in this case wished to give her evidence in-camera.
Objecting to the application, Mr Tan said insulting the modesty of a woman was not considered a sexual offence at the time it allegedly took place in 2012.
He also said that the alleged victim is currently not vulnerable.
He added that, if she was prepared to make a serious allegation against Lim, she must be able to stand up and give her evidence in public.
This is so that his client would have the opportunity to not only “exonerate himself in the eyes of the court, but in the eyes of the public”.
District Judge Wong Peck granted the prosecution’s application.
Mr Tan then asked if Lim’s wife could remain in court, to give emotional support to him as the witness took the stand.
DPP Wong said this was an unusual request but said she did not object to it, and Lim’s wife was allowed to be present.
The rest of the public gallery was cleared at about 10.30am for the victim to take the stand.

 

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Woman upset after Ken Lim allegedly asked her sex-related question, ‘dissed’ her songwriting​

Ex-Singapore Idol judge Ken Lim (right), who was the Hype Records executive director, faces seven charges involving five women. ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG

Shaffiq Alkhatib
Court Correspondent

MAY 10, 2024

SINGAPORE – One of the women who accused former Singapore Idol judge Ken Lim of insulting her modesty had testified that they met on July 25, 2012, during which he “dissed” her songwriting and allegedly asked her a sex-related question.
Even though she had given her testimony earlier this week in proceedings that were not open to the public, excerpts of what she had told the court emerged when defence lawyer Paul Loy grilled her husband, who took the stand on May 10.
The husband told the court that the woman, who is identified in court documents as V5, was upset when she later told him during a phone call about a sex-related question Lim had allegedly asked her during the meeting.
Lim, 60, is now on trial after he allegedly insulted her modesty.
Earlier this week, V5 testified that Lim had also said she did not have what it took to be a singer. He was the executive director of record label Hype Records at the time.
In earlier proceedings, Deputy Public Prosecutor Gail Wong said that the woman, who is now a singer-songwriter based overseas, had gone to Lim for advice on a musical career.
V5 had testified that she found the criticisms upsetting and later spoke to her boyfriend on the evening of July 25, 2012, after the meeting.

The man, who is now her husband, told the court on May 10 that she was upset during the phone call.
He also testified that according to V5, Lim had asked her: “What if I have sex with you right now?”
The husband said: “She was upset after what happened and the question she was asked. The experience was distressing to her.”

V5, who was 26 at the time of the alleged offence, cannot be named due to a gag order. Details about her husband also cannot be disclosed, to protect her identity.
A team from Wong Partnership, led by Senior Counsel Tan Chee Meng, is representing Lim during the trial.

On May 10, Mr Loy, one of the defence lawyers, asked the husband of V5 if he knew through the phone call on July 25, 2012, that Lim had told V5 she did not have what it took to be a singer.
The husband replied that he could not recall. Among other things, he also could not recall if V5 told him that Lim had criticised her music.
Mr Loy also asked him: “Did she tell you during this call that she was in a blur and did not know what was happening?”
Again, the husband said that he could not remember.
When Mr Loy asked if his recollection was “hazy”, the husband replied: “I wouldn’t use ‘hazy’. It’s what I remember.”
However, the husband recalled that V5 had told him during the phone call about Lim’s alleged sex-related query.
According to the man, he went to sleep after the phone call.
The court heard that V5 sent him a text message around 9.30am the next day, and he replied: “Got meeting now, talk later.”
The husband also told the court that there was no suggestion she was upset at the time.
When DPP Wong re-examined the husband later in the day on May 10, the latter told the court: “She was not looking to be signed (to Lim’s record label)... She realised she didn’t enjoy performing on a big stage.”
Lim faces seven charges involving five women and is expected to undergo five different trials, each involving one alleged victim.
He is accused of molesting a 25-year-old woman at the Hype Records office in Henderson Road on Nov 23, 2021.
He allegedly insulted the modesty of four other women, including V5.

Between 1998 and 1999, Lim allegedly showed a pornographic video to a female artiste identified as V4, who was between 19 and 21 years old then and under his management.
Lim allegedly made lewd remarks to V2, another female artiste under his management, between 1999 and 2002. She was then between 18 and 20 years old.
In 2013, he allegedly made sexually charged remarks to V3, a 24-year-old woman who was an artiste working with him.
The trial continues.
Offenders convicted of insulting a woman’s modesty can be jailed for up to a year and fined.

 

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Sister of Ken Lim’s alleged victim denies police report made to ‘fix’ him over contract rejection​

Ken Lim is contesting seven charges involving five alleged victims and will go through a trial for each victim. ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG

Wong Shiying

Jul 11, 2024

SINGAPORE – A singer-songwriter who made a police report against music producer Ken Lim for making sexual comments towards her did not do so because she was out to “fix” him for not signing her to his label, her younger sister said in court.
The alleged victim’s sister said this during a trial on July 10 in response to the defence team’s suggestion that the sisters had “finally found an opportunity to fix Ken Lim” because he did not offer the singer-songwriter a contract in 2012.
Lim, 60, who was the executive director of record label Hype Records at the time of the alleged offence, is represented by a legal team from Wong Partnership led by Senior Counsel Tan Chee Meng.
Lim, who is best known for being a judge on talent show Singapore Idol, is contesting seven charges involving five alleged victims and will go through a trial for each victim. The charges comprise one count of molestation and six counts of insulting modesty.
His current trial involves a woman, then 26, who alleged that he had asked her “Are you a virgin?” and “What if I have sex with you right now?” at a carpark on July 25, 2012.
The woman decided to file a police report 11 years later, on June 28, 2023, after seeing news reports that Lim had been charged over similar offences.
The prosecution said earlier in its opening statement that the woman did not report Lim in 2012 as she had not known that uttering sexually inappropriate words to someone is a crime.

The woman, who cannot be named due to a gag order to protect her identity, took the stand against Lim in May and testified in proceedings that were closed to the public and the media.
Her husband and father also testified that month in open court.
During the July 10 hearing, the woman’s sister testified that she had spoken to her sister about the alleged incident between 2012 and 2013.

She said: “What I recall from our conversation is that (my sister) had met Ken Lim to talk about her music. He said her music was too innocent and made sexually inappropriate comments to her.”
When Mr Tan from the defence suggested that the woman had reported his client to the police to “fix” him for not offering her a contract in 2012, the woman’s sister disagreed, saying her sister did not mention anything about a contract with Lim.
Mr Tan questioned the credibility of the alleged victim’s sister as a witness, suggesting that the woman could have prepared her family members on what to say to the police.
Earlier in May, another lawyer from the defence team, Mr Paul Loy, had also cast doubt on how credible the woman’s husband and father were as witnesses.
Referring to chat logs that were sent by the woman to her family members after she had filed a police report, Mr Tan quoted the woman saying, “preparing (her parents) would be harder”.
Addressing the woman’s sister, Mr Tan said: “It is clear from these messages that after (the woman) told you what to say, she was going to prepare her parents.”
The woman’s sister disagreed, saying her sister was merely trying to tell her family what to expect as she had already met the police.
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When asked by Deputy Public Prosecutor Gail Wong what the woman meant when she said “ugh” in a text message before her second meeting with Lim on July 25, 2012, the woman’s sister said her sister was likely feeling dread or disgust about meeting Lim.
Mr Tan responded, citing chat logs, that there was no sign of apprehension in the family after the woman’s first meeting with Lim on July 19. He questioned if “ugh” could have instead expressed anxiety with meeting a famous producer.
Earlier in the day, Senior Staff Sergeant K. Vigneswaran, who took the woman’s statement when she filed the police report, was also cross-examined.
It was revealed that in the alleged victim’s first information report, she alleged that Lim had told her to get “on the dark side”.
According to the report, the woman said what Lim meant by that was to “sleep around, cheat on (her) boyfriend, and take drugs”.
The trial continues on July 11.

 

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Ken Lim takes stand in trial, says allegations of sex-related questions to woman ‘a blatant lie’​

Music producer Ken Lim called the allegations “more absurd than believable”. PHOTO: ST FILE

Christine Tan

Jul 22, 2024

SINGAPORE - Former Singapore Idol judge Ken Lim called the allegations of him asking sexually inappropriate questions “a blatant lie”, as he took the stand for the first time in the trial.
In his testimony on July 22, which lasted more than four hours, Lim, 60, denied asking a woman, then 26, “Are you a virgin?” and “What if I have sex with you right now?” on July 25, 2012.
Lim, a music producer known for his record label Hype Records, said he had criticised only the woman’s ability to succeed in the music industry, which made her upset.
When asked by his lawyer, Senior Counsel Tan Chee Meng, to respond to the allegations, Lim said: “I am already an established music executive. I’ve been in the business for three decades. I will not leave the fate of my reputation in the hands of a 26-, 27-year-old who cannot (differentiate) between having a future and having none.”
The woman, who cannot be identified due to a gag order, had testified against Lim in May in court proceedings that were closed to the media. She is one of five women who claim to be Lim’s victims. Lim, who faces seven charges – one count of molestation and six counts of insulting modesty – will go through a trial for each victim.
On the stand, Lim said he had arranged to meet the woman in 2012 as a favour for his close friend, who was family friends with her. The friend knew she wanted to join the music industry and hoped Lim could help her.
They first met at the Hype Records office building in Henderson Road on July 19, 2012, where the woman claimed Lim said her music was too innocent.

She said Lim cited local singer-songwriter Corrinne May as an example of how innocent music cannot sell, and that May was “not successful, she’s just a kindergarten teacher”.
Lim refuted this on the stand, saying “innocent music” sells better in Asia given the culture. He added he would never speak ill of May as she was a dear friend and respected musician whom he had mentored for many years.
The woman and Lim met again at the same office six days later. It was at this second meeting where she claims he asked her the two sex-related questions.

Lim called the allegations “more absurd than believable”. He denied asking her if she was a virgin, saying: “I won’t have asked such a question because it would never have crossed my mind.”
He said given the woman’s age, the fact that she had travelled to Europe with her boyfriend and wanted to marry him, “to think she is not intimate... is quite difficult to believe”.
He added that if he had asked such inappropriate questions, the woman would likely tell their mutual friend.
The woman also said Lim pressured her to smoke at the second meeting, while Lim said she asked him for a cigarette.
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According to their text exchanges after the meeting, Lim told the woman that she should avoid telling her parents or boyfriend that she was meeting him – which Lim explained in court as a “tongue-in-cheek” remark.
The woman also claimed Lim told her she should “go to the dark side”, meaning to “sleep around, cheat on (her) boyfriend, and take drugs”.
Lim said no record executive would tell an artiste to do so, saying: “This will be scandalous, and no record company will want to deal with scandals because it’s bad for business.”
The defence team said in their opening statement that the woman’s testimony did not corroborate with the evidence given by prosecution witnesses, which included the common friend they had.
The team painted the woman as someone who was upset by criticism, writing: “The fact was that (Lim) was direct and forthcoming in his feedback. And the complainant felt deeply hurt by the truth.”
Lim said on the stand: “I told her that every time she sings, someone would cringe... I explained to her that she needs to have some kind of reality check as far as her songs are concerned.”
The defence suggested previously that the woman reported Lim to the police, as she wanted to “fix” him for not signing her to his label. The woman’s sister refuted this on the stand.
The prosecution said earlier that the woman did not report Lim in 2012 as she had not known that uttering sexually inappropriate words to someone is a crime.
She decided to file a police report on June 28, 2023, after seeing news reports that Lim had been charged over similar offences.
May will testify for the defence about how Lim had helped her. Social service veteran, Mr Gerard Ee, who is a mutual friend of Lim and the woman’s family friend, is also a defence witness.
Lim is set to finish his testimony regarding this alleged victim at his next court appearance on Aug 13.
The trial continues.

 

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When the name is Zhi Qiang, it is a red flag.

 

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S’porean David Yong, who was in Netflix’s Super Rich in Korea, charged with falsification of accounts​

Evergreen Group Holdings CEO David Yong was arrested on Aug 1 and charged on Aug 3. PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO

Joyce Lim
Senior Correspondent

Aug 03, 2024

SINGAPORE – Singaporean businessman David Yong has been charged with falsification of accounts in relation to a promissory note arrangement involving Evergreen Group Holdings.
The 37-year-old chief executive of Evergreen Group Holdings, whose full name is Yong Khung Lin, was arrested on Aug 1 and charged on Aug 3.
He is accused of having the intention to defraud by abetting Jolene Low Mong Han to falsify papers belonging to Evergreen GH, formerly known as Evergreen Assets Management.
Evergreen GH is one of the entities under Evergreen Group Holdings.
A court document states that on or about Dec 16, 2021, Yong allegedly instigated Low to falsify a tax invoice dated Sept 1, 2021, from Evergreen Assets Management for purported bulk sales of household fittings and appliances to a person named Roy Teo.
If convicted, Yong could be fined, or jailed for up to 10 years, or both, under Section 477A of the Penal Code.
The Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (Acra) record on Aug 3 showed Yong as the sole shareholder of Evergreen GH, which was incorporated in 2018. He ceased to be a director of the firm in December 2023.

On Jan 27, 2023, it was placed on the Monetary Authority of Singapore Investor Alert List to warn consumers in Singapore that the company is not regulated or licensed to provide financial services here.
The police said in a statement on Aug 3 that the Commercial Affairs Department is currently investigating the business activities of Evergreen Group Holdings for alleged fraud.
It noted that Evergreen Group Holdings includes Evergreen Grp Holdings, Evergreen GH, Everventures and other companies.

“Various companies under Evergreen Group Holdings were raising funds through the issuance of promissory notes that promised an annual interest of 10 per cent. Investigations arose due to the suspicion that investor monies were misused,” police said.
“In addition, these promissory notes may have been issued in contravention of the Securities and Futures Act.”
Besides Yong, another 37-year-old man, who is part of Evergreen Group Holdings’ management, was arrested on Aug 1.
Yong was featured in Netflix series Super Rich In Korea as one of the cast members of the “super rich”, alongside personalities like popular Iraq-born YouTuber and influencer Noor Naim and Italian Teodoro Marani, the son of the chief executive and designer behind luxury fashion label Henry Beguelin.
The six-part series released on May 7 showed Yong living in a rented apartment at Signiel Seoul – an upscale residence located in South Korea’s tallest building, Lotte World Tower, with a cash-counting machine at home.
In one scene, Yong is seen alighting from a private jet, carrying a Hermes bag. The series also showed viewers his house and cars in Singapore.
In an interview with The Straits Times in May, Yong said Evergreen Group Holdings owns a financial institution in Cambodia and four commercial properties in Singapore, generating annual revenues exceeding $70 million across Asia as at 2023.

ST checks on Aug 3 showed four of 16 entities listed under the group are registered with Acra.
One of the entities, Evergreen Grp, was formerly known as Evergreen Teak Trading until its name change in 2022. The company was incorporated in 1990 with a paid-up capital of $490,000 and Yong’s father Yong Ing Fatt is the sole director and shareholder.
In 2023, Yong garnered a wave of media attention in Singapore and South Korea when he announced that Evergreen Group Holdings would invest around 10 billion won (S$9.8 million) in K-pop label and agency Attrakt, which is known for producing rookie girl group Fifty Fifty.
A press release sent by Evergreen Group Holdings labelled Yong “a knight in shining armour, reviving Attrakt”.
ST has contacted Evergreen Group Holdings for comment.

 

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S’porean David Yong from Netflix’s Super Rich In Korea faces more fraud charges, denied bail​

Evergreen Group Holdings CEO David Yong was handed two new charges over falsifying accounts on Aug 8. PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO

Joyce Lim
Senior Correspondent

Aug 08, 2024

SINGAPORE - Singaporean businessman David Yong was on Aug 8 handed two new charges over falsifying accounts in relation to a promissory note arrangement involving Evergreen Group Holdings.
The 37-year-old chief executive of Evergreen Group Holdings, whose full name is Yong Khung Lin, is accused of having the intention to defraud by abetting his employee Jolene Low Mong Han to falsify papers belonging to Evergreen GH, formerly known as Evergreen Assets Management.
Evergreen GH is one of the entities under Evergreen Group Holdings.
The new charges state that on or about Dec 16, 2021, Yong had allegedly instigated Low to falsify two tax invoices from Evergreen Assets Management for purported sales of furniture to two separate entities.
One invoice was dated May 13, 2021, made out to Evergreen Venture Capital. The other was dated Oct 22, 2021, for purported sales of furniture and interior design services to Tay Ai Chern Pearlrie.
The fresh charges come five days after Yong was charged on Aug 3 with falsification of accounts. On or about Dec 16, 2021, he had allegedly instigated Low to falsify a tax invoice from Evergreen Assets Management dated Sept 1, 2021, for purported bulk sales of household fittings and appliances to a person named Roy Teo.
If convicted, Yong could be fined or jailed for up to 10 years, or both, under Section 477A of the Penal Code.

Yong, who was featured in Netflix series Super Rich In Korea, is in remand at the Central Police Division after police arrested him on Aug 1.
He was denied bail on Aug 8 after the prosecution argued that bail should not be granted due to ongoing investigations. The additional charges indicate that further evidence was obtained during Yong’s first period of remand, said the prosecution.
The prosecution said the investigations are complex, as the Evergreen group of companies headed by Yong involves numerous corporate entities both in Singapore and overseas, and many people.

Yong is “at present a real flight risk notwithstanding his roots in Singapore”, the prosecution added.
The court heard how the Commercial Affairs Department’s (CAD) investigations uncovered that Yong is in possession of a Cambodian identity card and passport belonging to one Duong Dara, bearing the same photograph and birth date of Yong.
However, the whereabouts of these Cambodian identification documents are currently unknown, the prosecution said, noting that the existence of the documents was established by investigations and not revealed by Yong.
That gives rise to the inference that there is a possibility Yong “is hiding his possession of these documents and that he may attempt to use them to flee if not further remanded”.
Yong’s lawyer Sunil Sudheesan of law firm Quahe Woo & Palmer argued that bail could be granted on stringent conditions under which Yong reports daily to CAD for the purpose of helping with investigations. Yong could also be tagged, which would allow the police to track his whereabouts.

Yong, who was dressed in a red shirt and appeared in court via video link, said he had renounced his Cambodian citizenship in early June and was willing to follow all the conditions for his bail to be granted.
District Judge James Elisha Lee granted the prosecution’s request to remand Yong for seven more days. His case will be heard again on Aug 15.
With bail denied, Mr Sudheesan made several requests for an in-person meeting with Yong on Aug 8 or 9, ranging from an hour of unrestricted access to a five-minute meeting in the presence of an investigating officer.
Mr Sudheesan earlier raised concerns about Yong’s mental health, citing a 2021 report from Raffles Hospital indicating that Yong had post-traumatic stress disorder. The lawyer emphasised the need to discuss procedural issues and inform Yong about his rights, and questioned how such meetings could impede police investigations.
The prosecution argued that the right to counsel is not immediate and should be exercised within a reasonable timeframe. Yong is a practising lawyer and would know his rights, the prosecution added, highlighting the case’s complexity and the early stage of investigations that required CAD to focus on following leads and gathering evidence.
The prosecution assured the court that Yong would be granted access to his lawyer a day or two before the next court mention.
District Judge Lee denied Mr Sudheesan’s requests to meet Yong, accepting the prosecution’s submissions.
Yong told the court on Aug 8 that he is “in a very bad mental state”.
He mentioned seeing a doctor at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) on Aug 3, and asked to see a specialist at Raffles Hospital.
In response, the prosecution said a memo from the IMH doctor did not specifically recommend a specialist and Yong has not raised any other medical complaints since Aug 3, adding that any medical condition raised would be addressed as soon as possible.
On Aug 3, the police said CAD was investigating the business activities of Evergreen Group Holdings for alleged fraud.
They noted that various companies under Evergreen Group Holdings, including Evergreen Grp Holdings, Evergreen GH and Everventures, were raising funds through the issuance of promissory notes that promised an annual interest of 10 per cent.
The investigations came about because of suspicions that investor funds were misused, and that these promissory notes might have been issued in contravention of the Securities and Futures Act, which regulates activities and institutions in the securities and futures industry.
In addition to Yong, Evergreen Group Holdings chief operating officer Desmond Sim, 37, was also arrested on Aug 1 in connection with the case. Mr Sim has been released on bail.
As at Aug 3, records from the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority listed Yong as the sole shareholder of Evergreen GH, which was incorporated in 2018. He ceased being a director of the firm in December 2023.
On Jan 27, 2023, Evergreen GH was placed on the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Investor Alert List to warn consumers that the company was not regulated or licensed to provide financial services in Singapore.

 

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David Yong from Netflix series Super Rich In Korea handed 4th charge, offered $1m bail​

Businessman David Yong is accused of falsifying papers belonging to Evergreen GH, formerly known as Evergreen Assets Management. PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO

Shaffiq Alkhatib
Court Correspondent

Aug 15, 2024

SINGAPORE – Businessman David Yong has been handed a fourth falsification of accounts charge three months after he was featured in the Netflix series Super Rich In Korea.
The chief executive of Evergreen Group Holdings, whose full name is Yong Khung Lin, appeared in court via video link on Aug 15 over allegations that he had falsified papers belonging to Evergreen GH, formerly known as Evergreen Assets Management.
Evergreen GH is one of the entities under Evergreen Group Holdings.
He is said to have instigated someone named Thung Sai Fun to falsify several line items in Evergreen Assets Management’s financial statements for the financial year ended March 31, 2022, which resulted in a reported profit before tax of nearly $8 million.
The 37-year-old was arrested on Aug 1, and faced his first charge two days later over allegations he had abetted a woman identified as Jolene Low Mong Han to falsify papers belonging to Evergreen GH.
According to court documents, Yong instigated Ms Low on or around Dec 16, 2021, to falsify a tax invoice dated Sept 1, 2021, from Evergreen Assets Management for purported bulk sales of household fittings and appliances to a person named Roy Teo.
Yong was handed his second and third charges in relation to a promissory note arrangement involving Evergreen Group Holdings on Aug 8. They relate to events on or around Dec 16, 2021. Yong is said to have instigated Ms Low to falsify two tax invoices from Evergreen Assets Management for purported sales of furniture to two separate entities.

One invoice was dated May 13, 2021, made out to Evergreen Venture Capital. The other was dated Oct 22, 2021, for purported sales of furniture and interior design services to Pearlrie Tay Ai Chern.
Yong was offered bail of $1 million on Aug 15.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Theong Li Han had argued for a sufficiently high bail because a significant amount of funds remains unaccounted for.

The prosecutor also referred to an affidavit from a Commercial Affairs Department officer investigating the case.
The court heard that a firm called Evergreen GRP Holdings had issued promissory notes with a collective value of at least $63 million.
The affidavit states that Evergreen GRP Holdings is linked to the other Evergreen companies.
In her arguments, the DPP said that only $7.8 million in corporate accounts and about $2.4 million in loan agreements have been accounted for.
She also told District Judge Brenda Tan that Yong is a flight risk.
In earlier proceedings, it was revealed that he has a Cambodian identity card and passport belonging to Duong Dara but with Yong’s photograph and birth date on the documents.
Defence lawyer Sunil Sudheesan, from Quahe Woo & Palmer, described the bail amount as “astronomical”, and said it should be reduced to $250,000, with Yong’s father acting as the bailor.
The lawyer noted that there was no allegation of cheating or mention of victims in the charges his client is facing.
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“What you have are a number of purportedly falsified invoices for household fittings and appliances, furniture and interior design services,” he added.
Mr Sudheesan told Judge Tan that as for the passport, his client had surrendered it to the Cambodian authorities in June 2024.
The DPP said the authorities in Singapore will need to confirm this with their Cambodian counterparts.
Judge Tan noted that Yong has overseas connections with several countries, and set bail at $1 million.
As part of his bail conditions, he has to abide by a curfew of between 10pm and 6am, and report to an investigation officer handling the case every Monday at 10.30am.
Yong must also surrender any travel documents in his possession and wear an electronic tag.
His pre-trial conference will take place on Sept 27.
Meanwhile, the police are investigating the business activities of Evergreen Group Holdings for alleged fraud. The probe was prompted by concerns that investor funds were misused.
The police said the promissory notes may also have been issued in contravention of the Securities and Futures Act, which regulates activities and institutions in the securities and futures industry.
Evergreen Group Holdings chief operating officer Desmond Sim was arrested on Aug 1 in connection with the case. The 37-year-old is currently on bail.
As at Aug 3, records from the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority listed Yong as the sole shareholder of Evergreen GH. The firm was incorporated in 2018.
He ceased being a director of the firm in December 2023.
On Jan 27, 2023, Evergreen GH was placed on the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Investor Alert List to warn consumers that the company is not regulated or licensed to provide financial services in Singapore.
For each count of falsification of accounts, an offender can be jailed for up to 10 years and fined.

 

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Court rejects application by David Yong, of Netflix’s Super Rich In Korea, to travel to Japan​

David Yong is facing four falsification of account charges involving sums that run into the millions. ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG

Joyce Lim
Senior Correspondent

Aug 30, 2024

SINGAPORE - Businessman David Yong’s application to travel to Japan for work on Aug 30 was rejected by the State Courts, with District Judge Terence Tay saying he remains a flight risk.
The 37-year-old chief executive of Evergreen Group Holdings, who was arrested on Aug 1, just three months after he appeared in Super Rich In Korea, a series on Netflix, is facing four falsification of account charges involving sums that run into the millions.
Yong, whose full name is Yong Khung Lin, appeared in court on Aug 30 at about 2.30pm. He was represented by lawyer Joyce Khoo from the law firm Quahe Woo & Palmer.
The Singaporean, who is out on bail of $1 million, said he had to travel that day itself to fulfil a property purchase, and to seek other sources of income to fulfil his obligations under promissory notes he had issued.
A document related to the purchase of the property was submitted to the court.
Ms Khoo said Yong had to access funds in Japan, as his bank accounts in Singapore were frozen because of investigations by the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD).
Deputy Public Prosecutor Theong Li Han said the document Yong produced showed he had to pay a balance of 351 million yen (S$3.1 million) towards the property purchase.

She added that it was a substantial sum and underscored the fact that Yong has access to significant funds overseas.
Judge Tay, noting that the deadline was Aug 30 itself, said Yong would not be able to make it to Japan before the end of the business day. Japan is one hour ahead of Singapore.
He added that there is nothing to suggest that the business meeting necessarily requires him to travel there.

“Aside from counterparties travelling to Singapore, as suggested by the prosecution, the meeting can also be held virtually,” said the judge, who added that another representative can also be appointed to represent Yong’s company.
Judge Tay rejected his application, noting that Yong does have other bank accounts and remains a flight risk.

The businessman was charged on Aug 3 in relation to a promissory note arrangement involving Evergreen Group Holdings.
Among other things, he is alleged to have instigated employees to falsify financial documents related to Evergreen GH, formerly known as Evergreen Assets Management, a subsidiary of Evergreen Group Holdings.
The police are also investigating the business activities of Evergreen Group Holdings for alleged fraud. The probe was prompted by concerns that investor funds were misused.

 

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Singer Corrinne May testifies in Ken Lim trial, calls alleged victim’s statements ‘preposterous’​

Singer-songwriter Corrinne May appeared in the State Courts on Sept 4 to testify on day 13 of the trial. ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG
Andrew Wong

Sep 04, 2024

SINGAPORE – Music producer Ken Lim’s defence lawyers called upon their final two witnesses on Sept 4, in the ongoing trial against him allegedly making sexual statements to a then 26-year-old woman.
Singer-songwriter Corrinne May and former Nominated Member of Parliament Gerard Ee both appeared in the State Courts to testify on day 13 of the trial.
The trial revolves around an allegation that Lim, 60, had insulted the modesty of the woman in 2012.
The former Singapore Idol judge’s legal team, led by Senior Counsel Tan Chee Meng, showed Ms May the woman’s testimony in which she said she told Lim she loved and looked up to Corrinne May.
The pair first met at the Hype Records office in Henderson Road on July 19, 2012. Lim was the company’s executive director at the time.
They met again six days later. The woman claims that it was at this second meeting where he asked if she was a virgin, and posed the question: “What if I have sex with you right now?” at his office.
In her testimony, the woman alleged that Lim had said Ms May was not a successful musician and that she was only a kindergarten teacher, adding that only churchgoers listened to her music.

When asked by the defence what she thought of the statements, Ms May said: “I think it’s preposterous. Ken would not say something like that. Ken is a businessman and musician, so he would have known about all the music successes I’ve had over the years… He wouldn’t say this.”
Ms May said she first met Lim in 1992, just as she was starting her first year at the National University of Singapore. She had reached out to him by sending demo tapes of her music, as she was interested in becoming a musician.
The pair went on to become friends, with Ms May even performing at Lim’s wedding in 1994.

On the witness stand on Sept 4, she rejected the notion that Lim would have said she was an unsuccessful musician and kindergarten teacher, citing her career achievements around the time of the alleged conversation between Lim and the woman.
Said Ms May: “Around the same time this alleged conversation took place, Gardens by the Bay was just opening in 2012 and I was the first local artiste to open (for them).”
And just prior to that, she had two sold-out concerts and was invited to compose the 2010 National Day song, Ms May added.
Mr Gerard Ee, a social service veteran, said he first became acquainted with Lim some 30 years ago when Lim sought him out for his services, but the pair only grew closer in 2001.
Mr Ee was working at accounting firm Ernst & Young at the time.

Mr Gerard Ee said he first became acquainted with Ken Lim some 30 years ago when Lim sought him out for his services, but the pair only grew closer in 2001. ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG
Mr Ee said the two of them would meet up from time to time. He would pick Lim up for dinner, and “we enjoyed each other’s company and (had) discussions which were always very broad-based.”
He added that once, when he was chairman of the then National Volunteer Centre, he had pressured Lim to meet a deadline for a volunteer song, which forced Lim to cancel a trip.
Mr Ee said the flight turned out to be the “fateful” SQ006 flight, which had crashed in 2000. The Los Angeles-bound plane had taken off from the wrong runway in Taiwan and crashed into construction equipment, killing 83 of 179 passengers and crew.
He added that he has been Lim’s bailor since the first charges emerged in March 2023. “I think that’s what close friends should do for each other.”
Mr Ee further testified that he was the one who persuaded Lim to do him a favour by meeting the woman, as she was the daughter of Mr Ee’s close friend.
Lim, Mr Ee and his close friend met up for lunch in September 2023, after Lim informed them that he had been charged.
Mr Ee said: “If (my close friend) had heard a complaint, he would have told me and the two of us would have confronted Mr Ken Lim to find out what happened,” adding that he would have felt very uncomfortable continuing his meetings with Lim if the complaints were true.
The trial continues.
Lim faces four additional trials over sexual remarks he allegedly made between 1998 and 2013, as well as over an accusation of molesting a 25-year-old woman in his office in November 2021.
He has maintained his innocence on all seven allegations made against him by the five women.