Woman in S’pore’s largest money laundering case gets I5 months’ jail

Chinese national pleads guilty to 3 charges, including for submitting forged documents

- Wong Shiying and Samuel Devaraj

Chinese national Lin Baoying, the only woman to be charged in Singapore's largest money laundering case, was sentenced to 15 months' jail on May 30.

Lin, 44, faced 10 charges and pleaded guilty to three. They comprised two charges of submitting a forged document to a bank and one money laundering charge.

Seven other charges were taken into consideration during sentencing.

Of the 10 foreigners arrested in August 2023 following islandwide raids at luxury homes here led by the Commercial Affairs Department, Lin, who has passports from Turkey, Cambodia and Dominica, is the eighth person to be sentenced.

She had more than $170.5 million in assets that included cash, vehicles, properties and cryptocurrency seized after her arrest. About 90 per cent or $153 million will be forfeited to the state.