Ex-lawyer Jeffrey Ong jailed 19 years after misappropriating nearly $76mil of clients’ money

Jeffrey Ong Su Aun’s case involved the largest amount of money ever misappropriated by a lawyer in Singapore. - JCL ADVISORS

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Former lawyer, Jeffrey Ong Su Aun, was jailed for 19 years on Monday (July 17) after he misappropriated nearly S$76 million of his clients’ money.

This included more than $33 million that a company called Allied Technologies had agreed to escrow with his then firm.

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