Flash: Jeffrey Ong denied bail, slapped with 13 more forgery charges
JLC Advisors managing partner Jeffrey Ong Su Aun was denied bail on Thursday due to high flight risk.
He was found with a stolen Malaysian passport belonging to a person close to his age, and left the Tuas Checkpoint on May 13.
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BT reported last week that eight fresh charges were laid before Ong - all for alleged offences of forgery for the purpose of cheating, amid police reports of another S$16 million in unauthorised transactions.
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