For more than a decade, Rasif was the record holder among these rogue lawyers. Tighter checks that were put in place have worked — until now.
SINGAPORE (June 3): When news broke that Jeffrey Ong, managing partner of law firm JLC Advisors, had disappeared with $33 million from an escrow account maintained by Allied Technologies at JLC, it seemed like an all too familiar story.
In 1997, lawyer Geoffrey Heng went missing with $3.2 million; in 2004, Sivakolunthu Thirunavukarasu disappeared with $2.4 million. In 2006, David Rasif, the father of DJ Jade Rasif, absconded with $11 million of his clients’ monies. The following year, Zulkifli Amin took $6 million of clients’ monies.
