First person convicted will be deported after release

Cambodian national Su Wenqiang will also be barred from re-entering Singapore

- Samuel Devaraj and Christine Tan

Cambodian national Su Wenqiang - the first person to be sentenced in Singapore's largest money laundering case - will be deported after his release from prison.

He will also be barred from reentering Singapore, an Immigration and Checkpoints Authority spokesman told The Straits Times on April 4.

As to which country he will be sent back to, the spokesman said "the location of deportation is dependent on the admissibility of the foreigner based on his or her valid passport".

Su became a Cambodian national on Oct 7, 2019. He also holds passports from Vanuatu and China.

The 32-year-old was sentenced to 13 months' jail on April 2 after pleading guilty to two money laundering charges, becoming the first of 10 foreigners to be convicted over a probe that saw more than $3 billion in cash and assets seized.

Su was arrested on Aug 15, 2023, and had been in remand for almost eight months.

Associate Professor Mervyn Cheong of the National University of Singapore said that if Su's sentence is backdated to his date of arrest, then he might be out at the end of April, or in early May.

Under the Prisons Act, an inmate will receive a one-third remission unless certain incidents occur while he serves his sentence -for example, committing an offence such as rioting in prison.

Prof Cheong, who practises at Advocatus Law, said that with the remission, Su's effective jail term is about 8 months.