These concerned brokers include Gabriel Gan Tze Wee and Henry Tjoa Sang Hi, who had gone to the extent of getting Soh a disposable phone to connect with him.
Several brokers — supposedly once part of John Soh Chee Wen’s inner circle — became “paranoid” of being seen in the latter’s company following the 2013 penny stock crash.
“Many of these people were — to put it crudely — paranoid of being seen communicating with me because they knew I was in the spotlight,” said Soh, the alleged mastermind of the share manipulation scheme during his cross-examination at the High Court by Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Teo Guan Siew on June 15.
