‘I honestly didn’t think the company (Hin Leong) would go down just like that’: witness

SINGAPORE’s former oil tycoon Lim Oon Kuin, who faces cheating and forgery charges, was a “really good and nice boss”, but was also “very domineering” and would usually not take “no” for an answer, said one of his former employees on the sixth day of the trial against him.

“In that sense… I would usually take his instructions and not question him much,” said Serene Seng during an examination-in-chief by deputy public prosecutor Christopher Ong at the State Court hearing on Thursday (Apr 20). She also described him as a “Chinese towkay”.

Seng, 61, worked at Hin Leong Trading (HLT) for 27 years and retired three years ago. She worked closely with Lim – better known as OK Lim – “almost on a daily basis” for more than two decades. She is the prosecution’s third witness in the trial that began on Apr 11.