O.K. Lim, Singapore oil trader and once superstar businessman, convicted of cheating and abetting forgery


The 79-year-old former oil tycoon has also been diagnosed with acute and chronic sinusitis, which will require surgery. - PHOTO: REUTERS

SINGAPORE (AFP) - The founder of a failed Singapore oil trading company was convicted Friday of cheating a major bank and abetting forgery in a case that tainted the city-state's crude trading market.

Lim Oon Kuin, better known as O.K. Lim, founded Hin Leong Trading, one of Asia's biggest oil traders before its collapse in 2020.

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