Man posed as sugar daddy to lure women from Singapore to Malaysia for sex, extorted over S$183,000 from one victim

Singh would pretend to befriend the victim using his driver persona and claim that he was also being threatened by the sugar daddy.

This allowed him to communicate using a “good” and “bad” personality to assess whether to appeal to the victim on compassionate grounds or to threaten them.

One victim matched with “Mike” on Tinder before late February 2020, before chatting with him on WhatsApp, where Mike offered US$30,000 per month for a sexual relationship.

This required the victim going to Malaysia to have sex with Mike monthly and filming explicit media of herself in sex acts.

The woman agreed because she was interested in a long-term relationship with Mike, who appeared to be a good-looking and successful man, and because the money offered far exceeded her own salary.

The woman sent Mike videos of herself engaging in sex acts and flew to Penang on Feb 28, 2020, where she meant Singh, who was posing as Mike’s driver.

Singh later posed as Mike and demanded the woman to have sex with Singh or he would disseminate the material.

The woman testified that she performed other lewd acts to prevent dissemination on Mike’s instructions, including meeting other unknown men for sex.

She was coerced into sex work and had her clients chosen for her, with her earnings going to Mike.

The woman was extorted of a total sum of more than S$183,000. Mike never provided any payment to her.

The woman finally lodged a police report in October 2020.

Singh was eventually arrested in a joint covert operation by the Singapore Police Force and Royal Malaysian Police Force and charged in Singapore.

He gave detailed confessions across 16 statements explaining how he carried out the crimes, saying he needed money for his family’s expenses and expressing remorse.

However, at trial, he denied the charges and claimed he did have sex with the victims but was not the “sugar daddy”.

Singh was unrepresented. He said nothing in mitigation, leaving the sentence to the court.

The prosecutor, Mr Bin, said this case was “the very worst of its kind” and that Singh was “effectively a serial rapist”.

He said his conduct was depraved, sadistic and malicious. The acts he forced the victims to do were “utterly debasing” and “disgusting”.

One woman was flogged and whipped until she was badly wounded.

Another had her life and career “derailed” while one victim could not be diagnosed as she was so traumatised she could not properly attend therapy, which triggered flashbacks.

Mr Bin said the offences were committed in a particularly manipulative manner, with Singh purposefully making use of the inherent power disparity in a dominant-submissive sexual relationship and manipulating his victims into delaying reporting or realising they had been deceived.

He claimed trial “to the bitter end” and attempted to elicit “wholly irrelevant and scandalous details” of the victims’ sex lives, making claims against police officers and the prosecution.

“He has blamed every single person but himself,” said Mr Bin.

The judge adjourned sentencing to January.