Serial Swindlers: Chia Teck Leng
Crime
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27m
This serial swindler also has the dubious title of being Singapore's biggest ever commercial fraudster - stealing a massive S$117 million from four foreign banks. His case rocked Singapore not just for the vast amount of money he stole , but because it exposed the dark truth of what an obsession with gambling will lead a man to do.
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