Ong was first charged on June 1 for cheating CCJ Investments of $6 million. On June 13, he was slapped with a further eight charges of forging documents for the purpose of cheating three other clients of a total of $16 million. Ong is also linked to the $33 million belonging to Allied Technologies that went missing in an escrow account managed by JLC.
SINGAPORE (June 24): Jeffrey Ong Su Aun might be the managing director of law firm JLC Advisors. But as details of his escape to Malaysia were revealed, it would not have been difficult to imagine the 41-year-old as a character in a novel by his namesake, Jeffrey Archer.
In court on June 20, Ong faced 13 fresh charges of forgery for the purpose of cheating, bringing the total number of charges he faces to 22. Ong is alleged to have falsified a series of documents to deceive one Chan Yi Zhang into believing that US$4.9 million ($6.6 million) was still held in escrow by JLC.
