SINGAPORE – After their extramarital affair of nearly 30 years ended, two former lovers sued each other over the money they had transferred between themselves over the years.
Mr Chan Tuck Cheong sued Madam Sin Wee Hiong, claiming that she still owes him $222,000 out of the $495,000 he had lent her.
Madam Sin denied that she owed him money. Instead, she contended in a counterclaim that she had lent him more than $1 million, of which $578,000 remains unpaid.
She said she first lent $800,000 to Mr Chan in 2013 after she and her then husband remortgaged their matrimonial home in Serangoon Gardens for $1.26 million.
Madam Sin said Mr Chan had asked her to do so because he needed the funds to redevelop his landed property in Bedok.
In a written judgment on Jan 5, Senior Judge Chan Seng Onn dismissed Mr Chan’s claim for $222,000 and allowed Madam Sin’s counterclaim for $578,000.
The linchpin of Madam Sin’s case was a document signed by Mr Chan acknowledging the $800,000 loan, the judge noted.
Mr Chan admitted that he had signed the document but claimed he did not receive the money.
He said Madam Sin had asked him to sign the document so that she could show it to her husband.
Mr Chan suggested that she needed money for gambling, which prompted her to hatch a plan to get her husband to agree to take a bank loan by deceiving him into believing that the money was to be lent to Mr Chan.
But the judge said Mr Chan failed to prove that the signed acknowledgement was created as a sham document.
