Man charged with using fugitive lawyer’s name to dupe 2 insurance firms of nearly $77k

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Saha Ranjit Chandra, 48, used fugitive lawyer Charles Yeo's name to negotiate with the insurers. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SINGAPORE - A man was hauled to a district court on Tuesday after he allegedly used the name of a fugitive lawyer to dupe two insurance firms into disbursing nearly $77,000 of settlement sums linked to two foreign workers’ injury claims.

Yeo was a director of Whitefield Law Corporation at the time, according to court documents. Since 2022, he has been on the run from the law. A search with the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority reveals that he is no longer a shareholder and director at Whitefield Law Corporation.According to Acra, Saha used to be a director and shareholder at Charles Yeo Law Practice, holding these positions until 2020.Saha is accused of cheating Great Eastern Life Assurance Co between July 29 and Nov 30, 2020, by using Yeo’s name to negotiate for the workplace injury claim of a foreign worker called Manbir Singh.

This time, the insurer released a settlement sum of nearly $42,000 over the workplace injury claim of one Sikder Md Shalim.From this amount, nearly $32,600 was allegedly released to Whitefield Law Corporation, while over $9,200 was said to be released to a company called Joseph Chen & Co.

Source: Insurance Report (insurancereport.net)

 

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