Brother of $3b money laundering convict jailed for a year, forfeits $10m Sentosa bungalow因洗钱30亿美元被判入狱一年的罪犯的兄弟，没收了价值1000万美元的圣淘沙别墅
The brother of Zhang Ruijin — one of 10 foreigners convicted in the $3 billion money laundering case — has been sentenced to 12 months' jail for possessing over $17 million in criminal proceeds.Zhang Ruisheng, 54, was found guilty on Monday (Oct 19) and agreed to forfeit his property at Sentosa, 69 Cove Drive, valued at around $10 million.He also...
The brother of Zhang Ruijin — one of 10 foreigners convicted in the $3 billion money laundering case — has been sentenced to 12 months' jail for possessing over $17 million in criminal proceeds.
Zhang Ruisheng, 54, was found guilty on Monday (Oct 19) and agreed to forfeit his property at Sentosa, 69 Cove Drive, valued at around $10 million.
He also surrendered his Toyota Vellfire, a high-end luxury multi-purpose vehicle valued at around $400,000, according to SgCarMart.
Ruisheng, a Chinese national, was in Singapore on a work pass under Golden Eagle Family Office as an "employment adviser".
Golden Eagle's directors were his younger brother Ruijin and Ruijin's wife, Lin Baoying, CNA reported. Both of them were involved in the $3 billion money laundering case in 2023.
According to court documents seen by AsiaOne, Ruisheng received around $17.6 million in his CIMB account across 11 transfers between August 2020 and September 2020.
He had claimed that these transfers originated from the sales of a Macau property to Beiyin Limited, which had netted him HK$87.7 million ($14.3 million), proving the transaction by sending in a forged sales and purchase agreement dated Aug 8, 2020 to CIMB bank.
To prove a personal loan of almost $6 million, the older brother then submitted a fake loan agreement dated March 23, 2020, between him and a company named Han Li Limited.
Ruisheng was supposedly to receive repayments for this loan across two tranches, within a year.
He then went on to purchase his Sentosa home at an eye-watering price of $10.4 million using money from the CIMB account.
The bank ultimately terminated his account in December 2020 —but not before Ruisheng withdrew the remaining $5 million to use as a deposit for another Sentosa Cove property under a third brother, The Straits Times reported.
Ruisheng's case had been put under scrutiny by the Commercial Affairs Department from August 2023 due to potential forgery offences for the documents he submitted in 2020.
This coincides with the arrest of the original 10 offenders in the $3 billion money laundering case on Aug 15, 2023.
Ruijin and his wife, Lin, were each sentenced to 15 months' jail before being deported to Cambodia in June 2024 after serving their sentences.
While Ruijin forfeited nearly $118 million worth of assets to the state in 2024, his wife surrendered around $154 million.
Singapore authorities seized over 200 properties across prime locations such as Orchard Road and Sentosa in connection to the $3 billion money laundering case.
Assets forfeited by the 10 offenders tied to the case amount to about $1 billion — the remaining $2 billion are tied to 17 suspects on the run, including the spouses of some of those arrested.
Among the 10, Su Baolin, Su Haijin, Su Wenqiang, Wang Baosen, Zhang Ruijin, Chen Qingyuan and Lin Baoying were all deported to Cambodia while Vang Shuiming was deported to Japan. Wang Dehai was deported to the UK.
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张瑞金的兄弟——他是因涉嫌30亿美元洗钱案而被定罪的10名外国人之一——因持有超过1700万美元的犯罪所得而被判处12个月监禁。
54岁的张瑞生于周一（10月19日）被判有罪，并同意没收其位于圣淘沙岛科夫路69号、价值约1000万美元的房产。
据 SgCarMart 称，他还上交了他的丰田 Vellfire，这是一辆价值约 40 万美元的高端豪华多用途汽车。
瑞生是一名中国公民，他持金鹰家族办公室的工作准证在新加坡担任“就业顾问”。
据中央社报道，金鹰集团的董事是他的弟弟瑞金和瑞金的妻子林宝英。两人都卷入了2023年发生的30亿美元洗钱案。
据 AsiaOne 看到的法庭文件显示，瑞生在 2020 年 8 月至 2020 年 9 月期间，通过 11 次转账，在其 CIMB 账户中收到了约 1760 万美元。
他声称这些转账源于向北银有限公司出售澳门房产，从中获利 8770 万港元（1430 万美元），并通过向 CIMB 银行提交一份伪造的日期为 2020 年 8 月 8 日的买卖协议来证明这笔交易。
为了证明自己获得了近 600 万美元的个人贷款，哥哥随后提交了一份伪造的贷款协议，日期为 2020 年 3 月 23 日，协议内容是他与一家名为韩力有限公司的公司签订的。
瑞生本应在一年内分两期收到这笔贷款的偿还款项。
然后，他用 CIMB 账户里的钱，以令人咋舌的 1040 万美元的价格买下了他在圣淘沙的住宅。
据《海峡时报》报道，该银行最终于 2020 年 12 月终止了他的账户——但在此之前，瑞生已将剩余的 500 万美元取出，用作他第三个兄弟名下在圣淘沙湾购买另一处房产的首付。
瑞生的案件自 2023 年 8 月起受到商务事务局的审查，原因是他在 2020 年提交的文件可能涉及伪造罪行。
这与 2023 年 8 月 15 日 30 亿美元洗钱案中最初的 10 名罪犯被捕的情况相吻合。
瑞金和他的妻子林分别被判处 15 个月监禁，服刑期满后于 2024 年 6 月被遣返回柬埔寨。
2024年，瑞金向国家上缴了价值近1.18亿美元的资产，而他的妻子则上缴了约1.54亿美元的资产。
新加坡当局查封了位于乌节路和圣淘沙等黄金地段的 200 多处房产，这些房产与 30 亿美元的洗钱案有关。
与此案有关的 10 名罪犯被没收的资产总额约为 10 亿美元——剩余的 20 亿美元与 17 名在逃嫌疑人有关，其中包括一些被捕者的配偶。
10人中，苏宝林、苏海锦、苏文强、王宝森、张瑞金、陈清源、林宝英均被驱逐至柬埔寨，王水明被驱逐至日本。王德海被驱逐到英国。
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