Peter Kwee has been in the legal limelight this week. Who is he?

MOTORING tycoon Peter Kwee has been making the headlines this week. Here are a few things to know about him:

He made his money from car distributorships

He hit the big time when he became a distributor of Renault and Volkswagen vehicles through his company Group Exklusiv in the early 2000s.

Kwee was born in 1947 in the hill resort town of Bandung in Indonesia, to a couple from China’s Fujian province. At 18, he started a trading business in flour and plastics, importing 50 to 100 truckloads of flour and 200 to 300 tonnes of plastic on each shipment.