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Yang Yin remanded pending High Court decision tomorrow on bail order
November 10, 2014
SINGAPORE — Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon will decide tomorrow morning (Nov 11) on the matter of bail granted by the State Courts to former tour guide Yang Yin, who is facing 331 charges for falsification of his company’s accounts.
Prosecutors today (Nov 10) argued for the High Court to reverse the decision last week by State Courts judge Eddy Tham allowing bail at S$150,000 with one surety to Yang — who is also engaged in a civil lawsuit with the niece of wealthy widow Chung Khin Chun over control of the latter’s assets.
The District Judge was “palpably wrong” and had disregarded the high flight risk presented by Yang, a China national lacking roots in Singapore, Deputy Chief Prosecutor Tan Ken Hwee argued. The proposed bail arrangements are perverse in that they appear to approve of an arrangement where a Singaporean bailor would put up bail money furnished to her by Yang’s parents, he said.
It was said last week that S$500,120 was transferred out of Mdm Chung’s account in 2010 to the bank account of Yang’s father in China. After the District Judge said he was allowing bail, the prosecution had asked for bail to be set at S$800,000 with four Singaporean sureties. If CJ Menon was minded to grant bail, all money should come from the bailors, Mr Tan argued.
Mr Tan said Yang, a permanent resident, had bypassed checks and balances in Singapore’s immigration laws, and would put the administration of criminal laws here under scrutiny and criticism should he abscond.
Yang’s lawyer Wee Pan Lee argued that the prosecution, in asking for the court not to offer bail and for no plea to be taken by Yang on his charges, was asking for Yang to be incarcerated indefinitely. This is indefensible as Yang is not charged with a capital offence, nor would his release endanger the public. Yang, 40, had had his passport impounded and had cooperated with the authorities, he added.
Mr Wee said he could have chosen not to disclose that the bail money was coming from Yang’s parents, but had done so for the sake of transparency. He asked CJ Menon to deny the prosecution’s requests but to adjust the bail order and order the bailor to put in her own money, if he wished. Yang is in remand in the meantime.
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