SINGAPORE, April 11 (The Straits Times/ANN): Singapore prosecutors on Tuesday opened the criminal trial of insolvent Hin Leong founder Lim Oon Kuin, better known as O.K. Lim, who faces a total of 130 charges involving US$2.7 billion (S$3.6 billion) in alleged fraudulent loans disbursed.
In what they called “one of the world’s largest collapses of an oil trading firm”, prosecutors alleged that 16 banks in Singapore have suffered US$291.9 million in “actual monetary loss” out of the US$2.7 billion in loans that they were allegedly duped into extending to Hin Leong by Lim. The losses are part of the alleged US$3.5 billion debt owed by Hin Leong to 23 banks.
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