Danny Lim Kok Tiong pleaded guilty to one charge of committing forgery on a payment invoice with the intention to cheat, and two charges of forging a client's signature on documents for the transfer of accounts.FORGING CLIENT'S SIGNATURE
He would also manage some of his clients' investments through iFast, an online trading platform. This would require the client to create an investment account before a"servicing financial adviser" was assigned.When he left Pana Harrison in late 2019 to take up a similar role in Ray Alliance Financial Advisers, Lim asked Ms Lim Chuen Chuen to sign a"Change of servicing financial adviser" form issued by iFast so he could keep her as a client at his new employer.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Bryan Wong said that Lim later admitted that he had forged Ms Lim Chuen Chuen's signature on the form as he felt it was"unfair" that she had declined to switch to Ray Alliance, after the"good" investment returns under his management. The offer was for Medzi to receive a"service fee" in exchange for assistance to receive money into his bank account, and remitting the funds to Malaysian bank accounts for business-related activities.
Lim was also informed that the sum of S$10,000 was part of a larger sum of S$50,000 that was intended to be remitted to Malaysia. However, before Lim could proceed to remit the money, he told Chung that an accompanying invoice detailing his business activities in Malaysia would be required.