SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): A former chief financial officer of commodity firm Agritrade International duped 16 financial institutions worldwide into providing her company with millions of dollars in trade financing, causing losses of US$469 million (S$631 million).
The financial institutions, which included major banks from Japan, South Korea, India and Taiwan, incurred the losses between January 2017 and November 2019.
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