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Yang Yin trial: '$500,000 painting? It's a fake worth $200'
Carolyn Khew
Wednesday, Jul 6, 2016

Art expert rubbishes ex-tour guide's claims about cost of works he had bought for Madam Chung.

A painting which Yang Yin claimed he had bought for $500,000 was dismissed by an art expert yesterday as nothing more than a cheap fake that would have cost $200 in a night market.

Madam Lim Sew Yong, chairman of Raffles Fine Arts Auctioneers, also rubbished a set of five other paintings the former tour guide from China said he had bought on behalf of a widow for $600,000.

Madam Lim valued them at $2,000 to $3,000 altogether, and told the court that it would be "stupid" for anyone to pay much more.

Madam Lim was taking the stand on the third day of Yang's trial, in which the 42-year-old is fighting charges that he dishonestly misappropriated $1.1 million from Madam Chung Khin Chun, a wealthy widow he met in 2008, and a year later moved into her Gerald Crescent bungalow.

He claims that he used the money to buy paintings for Madam Chung, a known art lover.

But yesterday, as he stared on impassively, the court heard that the paintings were worth far less.

The prosecution called on Madam Lim, who set up Raffles Fine Arts Auctioneers in 1992. She had been asked to look into the paintings bought by Yang Yin.

One was titled Horse Drinking Water, which Yang claimed was by renowned Chinese artist Xu Beihong and cost $500,000. It had been folded several times and stuffed into an envelope, which was found in Yang's luggage during a police search.

Madam Lim said it was an imitation based on two original works by the artist. "If this were to be sold in the pasar malam, China night market, it would be worth about 1,000 yuan - equivalent to $200," she said.

Madam Lim said she knew the artist's wife, who told her that the original paintings were done on double-layered paper. The painting Yang had was not, and it also appeared "relatively new".

Deputy Public Prosecutor Sanjiv Vaswani asked if an original would have been "folded up like a roti prata?". Madam Lim said no, adding it should have at least been rolled up and kept in a box.

"As a collector I would not treat the painting in this manner."

As for the other pieces, Madam Lim said they were neither masterpieces nor coveted by high-paying collectors. Two were original while the others - including one of a woman lying on a couch, were either lithographs copied by machines or of "not very high quality".

Yang's lawyer Irving Choh argued, however, that value of art is not a science and it is up to the buyer to decide how much he is prepared to pay. In the market, it is "willing buyer, willing seller".

Mr Choh also highlighted the testimony of Mr David Fu, director of auction house 33 Auction, who said the painting of the woman lying on the couch was bought by Yang for $8,960 at an auction in 2011.

But when DPP Vaswani asked Madam Lim if she would believe anyone claiming to have bought the paintings for $600,000, outside of an auction, she said no. And if someone did, "that person would be stupid".

Also taking the stand yesterday was Madam Chung's relationship manager at OCBC for the period 2009 to 2010.

Mr Huang Yi Yao, 34, told the court how the widow, now 89, had asked, in August 2009, for Yang to be made a joint holder of her accounts.

He said Madam Chung did this because she was getting old, and wanted someone to help run her financial affairs. That did not mean Yang had any share in the money, he added. "The accused can only operate the account as Madam Chung sees fit," said Mr Huang.

Her accounts included unit trust investments, which were "substantial", he explained. He told the court that as he went through the investments with Madam Chung and Yang, he noticed how the latter seemed interested in them.

He "leaned forward", recalled Mr Huang, and he "opened his eyes bigger".

The trial continues tomorrow.

Source: http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/yang-yin-trial-500000-painting-its-fake-worth-200

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Prosecutors seek more jail time for Yang Yin, whose ‘criminal odyssey’ lasted years
By Vanessa Paige Chelvan | 28 Sep 2016

SINGAPORE: Former tour guide Yang Yin’s “criminal odyssey” lasted for the five years - the entirety of his stay in Singapore - during which he committed crimes against wealthy widow Chung Khin Chun, Government agencies and multiple individuals and businesses, prosecutors said on Wednesday (Sep 28).

Aside from the 10 to 12-year jail term they have sought for Yang’s misappropriation of S$1.1 million from Mdm Chung, prosecutors urged the court to impose another two-and-a-half to three years’ jail on Yang, following his conviction in May of 120 charges.

These charges include 110 counts for falsifying receipts involving S$186,900 showing payments to a shell company Yang set up to gain permanent residency here, as well as four charges under the Companies Act and three each for cheating and immigration offences.

“This is a foreign national who has spent almost his entire five years in Singapore either offending or preparing to offend,” Deputy Public Prosecutor Nicholas Tan said on Wednesday. “Instead of being productive, Yang was prolific in generating a compendium of false documentation.”

The court heard Yang had fooled five Government agencies – including the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority, Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, Central Provident Fund Board, Ministry of Manpower and the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority – on his way to obtaining permanent residency here.

“(Yang) displayed extraordinary brazenness in offending”, DPP Tan said. “He had no qualms in conjuring up an entire business … (creating) an entire fiction, inventing customers, revenues and salaries from thin air.”

Yang registered a sham business – a music and dance school – and duped MOM into granting him an Employment Pass, which he later used to shore up his permanent residency application to the ICA. He also tricked IRAS and CPF by paying small sums of income tax – which he later called “charity” and “giving back to society” – to reflect his employment at a seemingly profitable company, prosecutors said.

“This is the character of Yang’s stay in Singapore. Although this epic tale is nearly at its conclusion, in this final chapter we still see a lack of genuine remorse … I’m hard-pressed to find even a single indication of compunction, of regret, for what he has done,” DPP Tan said.

Defence lawyer Irving Choh urged the court to impose a shorter jail term of one to two years, citing hardship on Yang’s family. “My client has a wife, two young children and aged parents to support”, Mr Choh said, adding Yang had been the sole breadwinner of the family and that his parents are not in good health.

Prosecutors contested this, saying Yang had voluntarily left his family behind for five years. His first child was a baby when he first came to Singapore, and his second child was born while he was here, DPP Tan said. “He has demonstrated (his willingness to leave) his young children, his elderly parents, to come to Singapore. So I think there is some hypocrisy in that argument.”

Yang will be sentenced on Thursday morning.

“DEEP BETRAYAL”

Yang also faces two charges for criminal breach of trust, for which he will be sentenced separately on Friday.

Yang pocketed S$1.1 million from Madam Chung during his stay here, in what prosecutors called a “deep betrayal” of the widow, 89, who had given Yang control over her assets – worth millions of dollars – trusting him to use the money to look after her in her golden years.

Instead, in the years that followed, Yang nearly emptied the widow’s bank account. In early 2010, Mdm Chung had S$2.7 million in liquid assets. By August 2014, shortly before Yang’s arrest, the widow’s bank account contained less than S$10,000. She was none the wiser.

Yang had “intentionally fostered an environment of unquestioning trust with Mdm Chung … by capitalising on her age and lack of familial support”, DPP Sanjiv Vaswani told the court at a hearing earlier this month.

To date, the true whereabouts of the S$1.1 million remain unknown. Yang has not made any restitution. Another S$1,128,004 remains frozen in his bank account.

According to Yang, Mdm Chung, whom he met in 2006, had convinced him to leave his wife and two children and move to Singapore to live with her in her Gerald Crescent bungalow as her "grandson". He moved here in 2009, and by February 2010, Mdm Chung had made a will leaving all her assets to him.

When Mdm Chung was diagnosed with dementia in 2014, her niece Hedy Mok stepped in and took Yang to court. Yang was subsequently arrested and charged.

Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/prosecutors-seek-more-jail-time-for-yang-yin-whose-criminal/3162240.html

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Yang Yin gets 26 months in jail for 120 charges in fraud case
Siau Ming En | September 29, 2016

SINGAPORE — Former tour guide Yang Yin was sentenced to 26 months’ jail on Thursday (Sep 29) for falsifying receipts, as well as for his immigration and cheating offences.

The sentence was backdated to Oct 31, 2014, the day Yang was remanded.

The 42-year-old Chinese national — who has been embroiled in a long-standing legal tussle over the 89-year-old Madam Chung Khin Chun assets — was convicted of 120 charges in May.

Of these, 110 charges were for falsifying receipts made to his music-and-dance school to gain permanent residency here, while the others were for immigration and cheating offences, as well as breaches of the Companies Act.

An additional 227 charges will be taken into consideration for the sentencing.

In meting out the sentence, deputy presiding judge Jennifer Marie said the court accepts that Yang’s offences were “without a doubt premediated and carefully planned”.

He had deceived not only the various public institutions but also the accountant he had retained to help him prepare the accounts for his school. These offences were also committed over an extended period of time, she added.

In mitigation, lawyer Irving Choh had argued on Wednesday that Yang should be considered a first-time offender. But Ms Marie noted that given that his offences took place over a protracted period of time, there was “little merit” to treat him as a first-time offender.

And on the hardships that Yang’s family would face as a result of his punishment, the judge added that that will be a “natural result of the accused committing an offence”.

“Ultimately, the accused and, regrettably, his family will have to face the consequences of disruptions to his family life owing to the due process of law,” she added.

When determining the specific sentences for the various offences, the judge noted that Yang’s falsification, cheating and companies offences “all play important supporting but complementary roles” to ensure the successful execution of the immigration offences.

In this case, she added, there were sufficient aggravating factors to scale the sentences for the immigration offences upwards to reflect the “high degree of premeditation and planning” over several years.

On his falsification charges, Ms Marie said that while Yang had devised a very elaborate plan of falsifying receipts to create the impression that the school he set up was profitable and paid him well enough to apply for PR, there was also no evidence to show that these offences had engendered any risk to investors or creditors.

On Yang’s total sentence, the judge added: “In my view, this sentence adequately sends a strong signal to deter like-minded offenders that foreigners who gain entry to or remain under false pretences in Singapore should not be expected to get off with a slap on their wrists.”

Last month, Yang also pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal breach of trust for misappropriating S$1.1 million from Mdm Chung. He is expected to be sentenced on Friday for this particular set of charges.

Source: http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/yang-yin-gets-26-months-jail-120-charges-fraud-case

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Former tour guide Yang Yin's PR status was revoked last November: ICA
17 Feb 2017 | Carolyn Khew, Toh Yong Chuan; Manpower Correspondent

SINGAPORE - Yang Yin, the former tour guide who was convicted of cheating a rich Singaporean widow of $1.1 million, is no longer a Singapore permanent resident (PR).

The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) revoked his PR status after he was sentenced in September last year to a six-year jail term for criminal breach of trust.

Confirming the revocation, the ICA told The Straits Times: "Any Permanent Resident (PR) who has been convicted of an offence will have their PR status reviewed by the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority. Yang Yin's PR status was revoked on 1 November 2016."

The ICA had previously said that individuals who provide false information in their application for immigration facilities will be dealt with firmly under the law.

Besides being convicted of cheating Madam Chung Khin Chun, 90, Yang was also jailed for two years and two months in Sept last year for a slew of crimes regarding his immigration status, including falsifying receipts for a sham company in order to stay in Singapore.

The 42-year-old Chinese national is serving the sentences consecutively.

Yang had preyed on the vulnerability of Madam Chung, said Principal District Judge Bala Reddy.

The prosecution has filed an appeal against the six-year jail sentence given to Yang Yin (centre) for criminal breach of trust.

Prosecution files appeal against ex-tour guide Yang Yin's 'manifestly inadequate' 6-year jail sentence

When the case first broke in 2014, questions had been raised about how the former tour guide had been granted permanent residency here.

He was found and convicted by the court to have lied to the ICA that he was running a profitable business and earning a salary via his sham company Young Music and Dance Studio, so it would grant him PR status, and his wife, a long-term visit pass.

In August 2012, the law was amended to make it administratively easier for the ICA to revoke the foreigners' permanent residency.

Then, Mr S Iswaran, who was Second Minister for Home Affairs, said that while the vast majority of Singapore PRs do not pose any threat to Singapore's law and order, the amendment would send out a clear message that PRs must respect and abide by Singapore's laws.

Though Yang faces a total of eight years and two months in jail, there is a chance that he will remain in jail longer because of the prosecution has appealed the sentence.

The appeal was scheduled to be heard in the High Court on Friday (Feb 17) but was postponed. The new date has not been fixed.

Besides the criminal cases, Yang has also been sued by the widow's niece, Madam Hedy Mok, for allegedly manipulating the elderly woman into handing over her assets worth an estimated $40 million.

The civil case is still ongoing.

Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/ica-former-tour-guide-yang-yins-pr-status-was-revoked-last-november

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