SINGAPORE: A lawyer who went missing after allegedly embezzling millions from an engineering firm was charged with four more counts of criminal breach of trust as an attorney on Tuesday .
The new charges for Jeffrey Ong Su Aun, a former managing partner of JLC Advisors LLP, relate to the misappropriation of S$11.7 million, police said in a news release.“The four criminal breach of trust charges, which arise from investigations by the Commercial Affairs Department, relate to the misappropriation of moneys amounting to S$11,700,020 from an escrow facility held by JLC Advisors for Catalist-listed Allied Technologies Limited,” the news release said.
The funds were placement proceeds for a share placement exercise carried out by the firm in October 2017, it added.in February, when he was handed 11 charges of embezzling S$33.8 million between October 2017 and August 2018. With the latest charges, he faces a total of 57 counts of cheating, criminal breach of trust and forgery.
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