Duo to be charged after corporate bank accounts allegedly used to launder scam proceeds

The man faces 14 charges, while the woman faces eight charges in total.

Published Oct 08, 2026, 11:15 PM

Updated Oct 08, 2026, 11:15 PM

A Russian man and a Singaporean woman will be charged on Oct 9 over alleged use of corporate bank accounts to launder scam proceeds.

Police said the accounts received over $300,000 and almost US$164,000 from fraud and investment scams, and the pair had grounds to suspect criminal conduct.

The man faces 14 charges and the woman eight. Police warned people not to take unknown directorships or hand control of company accounts to strangers.

SINGAPORE – A Russian man and a Singaporean woman are set to be charged on Oct 9 over their alleged involvement in activities surrounding the use of corporate bank accounts to launder scam proceeds.

The man, 35 , had provided corporate secretarial services to local and foreign clients in 2020 and 2021 through a firm he owned here, the police said in a statement on Oct 8 .

He recruited two people to serve as directors for two companies, and allegedly told them that they do not need to have any supervisory oversight over the companies or their bank accounts.

One of the two was asked to open a corporate bank account and the other was told to give up control of a corporate bank account.

The Russian man also recruited the woman, 42 , to be a local director of several companies.

She then opened a bank account, and took control of other accounts of two companies for which she was appointed a director, the police said.

Investigations revealed that the man later conspired with her to allow unidentified people to control these two bank accounts, the police added.

Between March and June 2021 , one of the accounts received more than $300,000 in various currencies from fraud and investment scams targeting foreign victims, according to the police.

She could not satisfactorily account for the funds when questioned by the police.

Another bank account controlled by the woman received almost US$164,000 ( S$210,000 ) in November 2021 , in investment scam proceeds from a foreign victim, the police said.

“Investigations established that the man and woman had reasonable grounds to believe they were involved in an arrangement facilitating the retention or control of benefits from criminal conduct on behalf of unknown persons,” the police added.

Also, the woman allegedly cashed a cheque for $430,700 on Dec 23, 2020, and gave the cash to an unknown associate of the Russian man, after a transfer of the same amount to a third company linked to the woman failed.

The monies were traced to a fraud perpetrated against an overseas company, the police said.

The man is slated to face 14 charges in total, including abetting local directors of companies to not exercise reasonable diligence in exercising their duties.

The woman is expected to face eight charges in total, including transferring property reasonably suspected to be benefits of criminal conduct.

The police advised the public to be careful about taking on directorships in companies they have no knowledge of.

They should also be cautious of opening corporate bank accounts and passing the control of these accounts to unknown third parties, or to receive payment in exchange for lending their names and identities to facilitate such arrangements.

该男子面临 14 项指控，而该女子总共面临 8 项指控。

发布于 2026 年 10 月 8 日晚上 11:15

更新于2026年10月8日晚上11:15

一名俄罗斯男子和一名新加坡女子将于10月9日被控涉嫌利用公司银行账户洗钱。

警方表示，这些账户通过诈骗和投资骗局分别获得了超过 30 万美元和近 16.4 万美元的赃款，两人有理由怀疑存在犯罪行为。

该男子面临14项指控，该女子面临8项指控。警方警告民众不要担任来历不明的董事职务，也不要将公司账户的控制权交给陌生人。

新加坡——一名俄罗斯男子和一名新加坡女子将于10月9日被控涉嫌参与利用公司银行账户洗钱的活动。

警方在 10 月 8 日的一份声明中表示，这名 35 岁的男子在 2020 年和 2021 年通过他在这里拥有的一家公司向本地和外国客户提供公司秘书服务。

他招募了两个人担任两家公司的董事，并据称告诉他们，他们不需要对公司或其银行账户进行任何监督管理。

其中一人被要求开设公司银行账户，另一人则被告知放弃对公司银行账户的控制权。

这名俄罗斯男子还招募了这名 42 岁的女子担任几家公司的当地董事。

警方称，随后她开设了一个银行账户，并控制了她担任董事的两家公司的其他账户。

警方补充说，调查显示，该男子后来与她合谋，允许身份不明的人控制这两个银行账户。

警方称，2021 年 3 月至 6 月期间，其中一个账户通过针对外国受害者的欺诈和投资诈骗，收到了超过 30 万美元的各种货币。

当被警方讯问时，她无法令人满意地解释这笔资金的来源。

警方表示，该女子控制的另一个银行账户在 2021 年 11 月收到了来自一名外国受害者的投资诈骗所得近 164,000 美元（210,000 新元）。

警方补充说：“调查证实，这对男女有合理理由相信他们参与了一项安排，该安排旨在帮助不明身份的人保留或控制犯罪所得。”

此外，据称该女子于 2020 年 12 月 23 日兑现了一张 430,700 美元的支票，并将现金交给了该俄罗斯男子的一名身份不明的同伙。此前，她试图将相同金额的款项转账给与该女子有关联的第三家公司，但转账失败。

警方表示，这些款项源于一起针对海外公司的诈骗案。

该男子预计将面临 14 项指控，其中包括教唆当地公司董事在履行职责时不尽到合理的勤勉义务。

该女子预计将面临总共八项指控，其中包括转移被合理怀疑为犯罪所得的财产。

警方建议公众谨慎对待自己不了解的公司，不要担任其董事职务。

他们还应谨慎开设公司银行账户，并将这些账户的控制权移交给未知的第三方，或者通过出借自己的姓名和身份来收取报酬，以促成此类安排。