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Singaporean Fugitive Faces Death Penalty After Extradition and Drug Charge

Authorities have frozen more than S$242,000 in accounts tied to him as Singapore’s Central Narcotics Bureau pursues a death-penalty drug trafficking charge

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Overview

  • He was arrested in Bangkok on July 5 during a raid by Thailand’s ONCB and police and extradited to Singapore on July 9
  • Tan Leng Chong is accused of conspiring with N M Mahendran to traffic about 4,990.6 g of cannabis mixture in mid-2024
  • Under Singapore’s Misuse of Drugs Act, conviction for abetment of trafficking this quantity carries a mandatory death sentence
  • He was remanded in district court on July 10 with a return date set for July 17 to allow prosecutors to trace the source of the drugs
  • A concurrent money laundering investigation has frozen over S$242,000 in bank accounts linked to Tan