PANews reported on April 7 that according to the "Lianhe Zaobao" report, Su Wenqiang, the main culprit in Singapore's largest money laundering case, became the first defendant to plead guilty and was sentenced to only 13 months in prison. Mr So faces a total of 11 charges, including eight charges under the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Serious Crime (Forfeiture of Profits) Act, alleging that he used $500,000 obtained from illegal online gambling in the Philippines to purchase an AMG C63S car in Mercedes. He is also suspected of spending about 116,817 yuan to buy luxury goods such as 17 brand-name bags and jewelry, as well as 30 bottles of Kweichow Moutai and 12 bottles of 18-year-old Macallan whisky. In addition, he is alleged to have used $359,877 to pay the monthly rent and deposit for a high-quality bungalow on Lewis Road near the Botanical Gardens, as well as the monthly rent for a unit in Orchard's Sam Tsui Lam Condominium, all or in part, which was also received in whole or in part by Su Wenqiang through his illegal online gambling business in the Philippines.
The amount involved in the country's largest money laundering case has risen to more than S$3 billion, and 10 people have been charged so far. In addition to Su Wenqiang, the other defendants are Su Haijin, Su Baolin, Su Jianfeng, Zhang Ruijin, Lin Baoying, Wang Shuiming, Chen Qingyuan, Wang Baosen and Wang Dehai.
Previously, on August 16 last year, it was reported that the Singapore police arrested dozens of foreign suspects suspected of money laundering, including 11 documents containing virtual asset information, with a total value of about S$1 billion. Among them, it was preliminarily determined that 10 people were originally from Fujian Province, China.