SINGAPORE – The founder of Surrey Hills Holdings – best known for its Surrey Hills Grocer cafe chain – has been charged with multiple counts of cheating after she allegedly duped a woman into handing her more than $400,000.
Pang Gek Teng, 37, who is no longer the chief executive of the company, was also charged on May 29 with one count of criminal breach of trust involving more than $240,000, as well as one count each of attempted cheating and forgery.
She now faces 12 charges in total.
Pang, a Singaporean, allegedly duped a woman into handing her more than $400,000 in total over eight occasions between 2018 and 2019.
Among other things, Pang is accused of cheating the woman of the largest amount on Jan 4, 2019, by pretending to be two people known as “Desmond” and “Derrick”.
She is said to have assumed the identities of such characters to dupe the woman into believing that a private investigator had reported seeing the woman’s husband at a bank branch in Serangoon Garden, asking about her account.
Pang allegedly claimed that the money was at risk of being frozen, and was to be transferred to “Derrick” for “safekeeping”.
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