Jail for two S’porean men who laundered money for Malaysian criminal syndicate

Published Sep 30, 2026, 09:15 PM

Updated Sep 30, 2026, 09:15 PM

SINGAPORE – Two Singaporean men who were part of a trio that laundered money for a Malaysian syndicate were sentenced to jail on Sept 30.

Low Zhi Wei, 36, and Dillon Jang Wei Hong, 28, were sentenced to 72 months and 79 months’ jail respectively.

Jang was also fined $15,000.

Both men pleaded guilty to three charges each, including charges for retaining the benefits of criminal conduct and being in a member of an organised criminal group.

The third man, Shuek Jin Hui, 37, still has a case before the courts.

Court documents stated that Low and Shuek were childhood friends. Shuek got to know Jang in 2022 through cryptocurrency trading.

In 2023, Jang asked Shuek if he had any avenues to make money. Shuek allegedly said that he needed to convert money received in his bank account into cryptocurrency.

In return, he offered Jang a monthly commission of $1,000 .

Jang would help Shuek convert the money that he received in his bank account into cryptocurrency. This would then be transferred to a cryptocurrency wallet provided by Shuek.

As a result of this arrangement, Jang was investigated in October 2023 after scam proceeds were received in one of his bank accounts.

Before giving his statement to the police, Shuek instructed Jang to blame an unknown person who allegedly deposited the money into his bank account.

Jang lied to the police that he did not know the source of the money , and that he was a bona fide cryptocurrency trader, even though he suspected that scam proceeds were flowing through his bank accounts.

Following the investigation, Jang told Shuek that he no longer wanted to use his personal bank accounts to trade cryptocurrency for unknown persons.

Shuek allegedly proposed that they continue with the arangement, but with Jang using local bank accounts relinquished by others.

Shuek purportedly got his runners to deliver mobile phones and SIM cards to Jang, who met other people to gain access to their bank and cryptocurrency accounts using these phones.

The accounts were later used by foreign syndicates to launder money from criminal activities.

Between January and February 2024, Jang, Shuek and two others travelled to Johor Bahru to meet a person who worked for a Malaysian criminal syndicate.

Under Shuek’s directions, they planned to market their services which involved laundering money using bank and cryptocurrency accounts.

Jang demonstrated how money could be transferred from his bank account and converted into cryptocurrency.

Thereafter, Shuek and Jang agreed to work with the Malaysian syndicate.

In July 2024, Low joined them as he needed to clear his debts.

The three men worked together to provide money laundering services to unknown persons from Malaysia.

Low and Shuek would find people who were willing to relinquish their local bank and cryptocurrency accounts, and then refer them to Jang, who opened and linked the accounts.

Low found these money mules on Telegram, and offered to pay them for giving up their accounts. He was promised $100 for every referral.

Jang would meet the money mules, who would open bank and crytocurrency accounts using their Singpass, and doing facial verification authentication on mobile phones provided by the Malaysian syndicate.

There were at least 20 of such phones in circulation, according to the court documents .

Once the money mule’s bank or cryptocurrency account was frozen, the phone would be sent back to the syndicate for a factory reset.

Jang mostly took instructions from Shuek, who was purportedly in contact with the Malaysian syndicate.

Jang received a total of $15,000 from Shuek in commissions, which were delivered by a runner.

From July to Nov 1, 2024, several scam victims lodged police reports, claiming they had been asked to transfer money to bank accounts that were traced to the trio.

Jang was arrested on Aug 22 that year at home , where police seized over 40 mobile phones, a cash counting machine and more than 60 SIM cards.

Low and Shuek were arrested on the same day at Woodlands Checkpoint, where they were trying to flee Singapore.

More than $29,000 in cash was seized from the pair.

At the time of their arrest, the trio controlled at least 40 Singapore bank accounts. Police reports from scam victims were linked to 28 of these accounts.

Transfers from these scam victims amounted to more than $1.2 million.

Deputy Public Prosecutors Zhou Yang and Kenneth Ng sought a sentence of 93 to 101.5 months’ jail for Jang, and 83 months and two weeks to 95 months and one week’s jail for Low.

Low’s lawyer, Gavin Neo from WongPartnership, sought a sentence of 30 months’ jail instead.

Neo said that Low was the most junior member of the group, and played a limited role unlike Jang and Shuek.

The lawyer also argued that the monetary gain Low received paled in comparison to what Jang received.

Jang’s lawyer, Low Hui Hui from Crossborders, said his client continued laundering money as he was persuaded by the ringleader, Shuek.

He also said Jang had no contact with the syndicate, as he only received instructions from Shuek and Low.

发布于 2026 年 9 月 30 日晚上 9:15

更新于2026年9月30日晚上9:15

新加坡——两名新加坡男子因参与为马来西亚犯罪集团洗钱的三人团伙，于9月30日被判入狱。

36岁的刘志伟和28岁的张伟宏分别被判处72个月和79个月监禁。

张某还被罚款15000美元。

两人均对三项指控认罪，其中包括保留犯罪行为所得利益和参与有组织犯罪集团的指控。

第三名男子舒金辉（37岁）的案件仍在法院审理中。

法庭文件显示，刘特佐和舒克是儿时好友。舒克于2022年通过加密货币交易认识了张某。

2023年，张问舒克是否有赚钱的途径。舒克据称表示，他需要将银行账户里的钱兑换成加密货币。

作为回报，他向张先生提供每月 1000 美元的佣金。

张会帮助舒克将他银行账户里的钱兑换成加密货币。然后，这些加密货币会被转入舒克提供的加密货币钱包。

由于这项安排，2023 年 10 月，张某的银行账户收到了诈骗所得款项，随后他被展开调查。

在向警方作证之前，舒克指示张某将这笔钱存入其银行账户的罪魁祸首归咎于一个身份不明的人。

张某向警方撒谎说他不知道这笔钱的来源，并且他是一名真正的加密货币交易员，尽管他怀疑诈骗所得正在通过他的银行账户流入。

调查结束后，张告诉舒克，他不想再用自己的个人银行账户为陌生人交易加密货币了。

据称，舒克提议他们继续执行该安排，但张先生使用其他人放弃的本地银行账户。

据称，舒克让他的手下将手机和 SIM 卡送到张手中，张再与其他人见面，利用这些手机访问他们的银行和加密货币账户。

这些账户后来被外国犯罪集团用于洗钱，这些钱来自犯罪活动。

2024 年 1 月至 2 月期间，Jang、Shuek 和另外两人前往柔佛州新山，与一名为马来西亚犯罪集团工作的人会面。

在舒克的指示下，他们计划推销他们的服务，其中包括使用银行和加密货币账户洗钱。

张演示了如何将资金从他的银行账户转移到加密货币。

此后，舒克和张同意与马来西亚犯罪集团合作。

2024年7月，刘特佐加入他们，因为他需要偿还债务。

这三名男子合谋向来自马来西亚的身份不明人士提供洗钱服务。

Low 和 Shuek 会找到愿意放弃本地银行和加密货币账户的人，然后将他们介绍给 Jang，由 Jang 开立和关联这些账户。

Low在Telegram上找到了这些洗钱者，并提出付钱让他们交出账户。对方承诺每成功推荐一人，就给他100美元。

张会与洗钱骡子见面，这些骡子会使用他们的 Singpass 开设银行和加密货币账户，并在马来西亚犯罪集团提供的手机上进行面部验证认证。

根据法庭文件，至少有 20 部这样的手机在市面上流通。

一旦洗钱者的银行账户或加密货币账户被冻结，手机就会被送回犯罪集团进行恢复出厂设置。

张主要听命于舒克，而舒克据称与马来西亚犯罪集团有联系。

张从舒克那里收到了总计 15,000 美元的佣金，这些佣金由跑腿人员送达。

从 2024 年 7 月到 11 月 1 日，多名诈骗受害者向警方报案，称他们被要求将钱款转入银行账户，而这些账户最终被追溯到这三人。

同年 8 月 22 日，张某在家中被捕，警方查获了 40 多部手机、一台点钞机和 60 多张 SIM 卡。

Low 和 Shuek 于同一天在兀兰关卡被捕，当时他们正试图逃离新加坡。

警方从两人身上搜出超过29000美元现金。

被捕时，这三人控制着至少40个新加坡银行账户。警方接到的诈骗受害者报案与其中28个账户有关。

这些诈骗受害者的汇款总额超过 120 万美元。

副检察官周阳和吴肯尼斯要求判处张某93个月至101.5个月监禁，判处刘某83个月零两周至95个月零一周监禁。

刘特佐的律师，来自 WongPartnership 律师事务所的 Gavin Neo，请求判处刘特佐 30 个月监禁。

Neo表示，Low是组合中最年轻的成员，不像Jang和Shuek那样扮演重要角色。

律师还辩称，刘特佐获得的金钱收益与张成泽获得的收益相比简直微不足道。

张的律师，来自 Crossborders 律师事务所的 Low Hui Hui 表示，他的当事人在主谋 Shuek 的劝说下继续洗钱。

他还表示，张某与犯罪集团没有任何联系，因为他只接受舒克和刘某的指示。