2013 penny stock crash

2013 Penny Stock Crash

A note to our readers as the penny stock saga rolls on…

Seven years on, the Singapore stock market is still reeling from that crash and its repercussions are being felt far and wide. And The Edge Singapore will continue to cover the trial.

2013 Penny Stock Crash

How GST-registered remisier Tjoa went broke trading for Soh, Quah

For more than two years, Tjoa says and his team of assistants at Phillip took trading orders from Soh and Quah. However, when the crash happened, the shares were forcibly sold off and Tjoa found himself shouldering the losses.

2013 Penny Stock Crash

John Soh claimed ex-SGX chief regulator Teng fed him updates on CAD probe: Prosecution witness

Ken Tai, who was once part of John Soh's "inner circle", alleges that former SGX chief regulatory officer Richard Teng had fed Soh with information on the Commercial Affairs Department's probe on the market manipulation scandal.

2013 Penny Stock Crash

From 'haunted counters' to branded watches, witness Ken Tai denies 'churning' commissions

SINGAPORE (Jan 31): The third tranche in the trial of John Soh Chee Wen and Quah Su-Ling, the alleged masterminds behind the 2013 penny stock crash has been adjourned to after the Lunar New Year. But there was no lack of drama in the final week of proceed

2013 Penny Stock Crash

Prosecution witness Ken Tai earned $8,588 worth of commissions in a day from 'churning' LionGold shares, defence counsel claims

In November 2012, Tai had bought his wife a Patek Philippe watch worth some $20,000 – 10 times more than his monthly salary of $2,000 just the year before.

2013 Penny Stock Crash

Witness Ken Tai claims to have left queues in the system not for own benefit but to prevent 'haunted counters'

“If after I finish with Henry, all the roll, I take out everything, what will the queue look like? It looks like – I mean, we call it ‘haunted counters’,” Tai protested. In Chinese, Tai added, they would call it "long men ke zhan" or Dragon Gate Inn.

2013 Penny Stock Crash

Prosecution witness Ken Tai admits to using omnibus accounts to hide illegal 'wash trades'

“You did it knowing full well this is precisely what Quah wants to avoid and something that she specifically instructed you not to do,” said Quah's lawyer, Philip Fong of Eversheds Harry Elias.

2013 Penny Stock Crash

Counsels clash over possible impeachment of former abettor-turned-prosecution witness Ken Tai

The defence counsels of alleged 2013 penny stock crash masterminds John Soh Chee Wen and Quah Su-Ling on Thursday crossed swords with state prosecutors over the potential impeachment of witness Ken Tai Chee Ming.

2013 Penny Stock Crash

Prosecution witness Ken Tai concedes alleged mastermind John Soh did not tell him to 'lie to' or 'mislead' authorities

Defence counsel N Sreenivasan in court on Wednesday also confirmed that there will be a formal impeachment of Ken Tai as a witness.

2013 Penny Stock Crash

Prosecution witness Ken Tai denies making unauthorised trades to churn commission

“If I am churning, if I’m creating, I will admit to that,” said former abettor-turned-prosecution witness Ken Tai Chee Ming.
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