SINGAPORE - A former lawyer, who was sentenced to more than six years jail in 2009 for offences including cheating, will be spending more time behind bars after he reoffended following his release.Despite this, a construction company director handed him $13,400 for “legal services” over several occasions between Aug 12, 2016, and Jan 17, 2017, as he did not realise that Leong was no longer a lawyer.
For the current case, Leong received the $13,400 after convincing the 59-year-old construction company director that he would help him in a civil suit against another firm, identified as Hao Tai Construction. Over several occasions, Leong duped the victim into paying him the monies for “legal services”, including drafting letters of demand.
The former lawyer claimed at one point to being “with the judge now”, implying to the victim that he was purportedly in court acting on the older man’s behalf.