A Nations Disgrace

Singapore has a famously low crime rate and is the envy of the world when it comes to keeping its citizens safe. However, every once in a while, the island has been shocked by something so unexpected and appalling, it grabs headlines and piques the interest of locals (and sometimes even the international press). These cases all have one thing in common shock value. The audacity of these men and women to commit the crimesand sometimes even the lengths they went to to cover their tracksunited people in Singapore to share their opinions condemning these cases. Sometimes, these crimes were even committed by people in high places and these audacious actions shocked the masses even more. These were people in trustworthy positions who used their power to dupe others but, thankfully, were caught, trialled in a court of law, then made to serve sentences fitting their crimes. Cases covered here include high-profile ones like the NKF scandal, the City Harvest Church debacle, the escape of Singapore’s most-wanted terrorist and how one man in Singapore brought down one of the UK’s oldest financial institutions. There are a few gruesome murders thrown in too, plus Ponzi schemes and sex scandals.This book is a collection for anyone interested in Singapore society, law and history, to find out more about how these cases were discovered, the law-enforcement processes that followed and what happened to the offenders after the scandals ended.”