Financial controller at Swire Pacific Offshore (former; c. 1994–1999)
Financial manager at Asia Pacific Breweries (former; 1999–2003)
Criminal status
Incarcerated since 2 September 2003
Criminal charge
14 charges of forgery (convicted of six)
18 charges of cheating four foreign banks of about $117 million (convicted of eight)
Four charges of criminal breach of trust involving $53 million
Two charges of money-laundering
Eight charges of abetment of passport forgery
Penalty
A total of 42 years' imprisonment, consisting of seven consecutive jail terms of six years
Chia Teck Leng (谢德龙 Xìe Délóng; born 11 October 1959) is a convicted white-collar criminal from Singapore, who was known for his four-year commercial fraud which involved the swindling of $117 million from four foreign major banks to feed his gambling addiction during his time as a financial manager at Asia Pacific Breweries (APB). Chia's crime was known to be Singapore's worst commercial crime committed in the city-state, surpassing that of Teo Cheng Kiat, who embezzled $35 million from Singapore Airlines for 13 years while he was employed there before his capture and sentencing of 24 years' imprisonment in 2000.[2]
Chia Teck Leng was arrested on 2 September 2003 when the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) somehow got wind of his fraudulent activities, and he thus faced a possible life sentence when there were 46 fraud-related criminal charges brought against him. Although Chia managed to escape the maximum term of life imprisonment after pleading guilty to 14 proceeded charges in a brief trial, he was nevertheless sentenced to a lengthy 42-year term of imprisonment for his crime, which reportedly became the longest term of imprisonment ever meted out by the courts of Singapore for a commercial crime.[3]
^"Public Prosecutor v Chia Teck Leng" (PDF). Singapore Law Watch. 2 April 2004. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
^"Longest jail term for the worst case of commercial fraud". National Library Board. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
^"Guilty As Charged: Chia Teck Leng led a double life and cheated banks of millions". The Straits Times. 16 May 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
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