SINGAPORE – They were recruited through friends or over drinks, and within a few years the Singaporeans found themselves flying on private planes and driving luxury cars as they ran favours for their bosses.
From 2017, Alfred Law Hon Kit, Ryan Lee Chee Keong, Jason Teo Jing Shen and Alex Lim Zhongliang ended up working for companies and individuals linked to Cambodian national Chen Zhi.
Chen Zhi is the chairman of Prince Holding Group, a conglomerate that was involved in everything from real estate to banking. According to the US Treasury, the company was a front for a multibillion-dollar global criminal syndicate.
The Singaporeans claimed they had unknowingly stumbled into a murky world of scam compounds and money laundering.
Law, Lee and Teo spoke with The Straits Times, denying knowledge of criminal activities. They said they had cut links to anything associated with Chen Zhi when the US slapped sanctions and criminal indictments against him, his associates, Prince Group and several companies linked to the conglomerate.
Lim has been uncontactable.
Over the last six months, ST searched through hundreds of pages of documents and official records to identify and track down the four Singaporeans, who had worked in different capacities for entities linked to the scam kingpin.
Lee and Teo’s names appeared on the manifest of an April 23, 2019, flight from Singapore to the Micronesia island of Palau with the top brass of Chen Zhi’s criminal syndicate.
In October 2025, Prince Group was accused by the US of expanding its operations into Palau through a luxury resort, and establishing commercial interests on the island.
The men were hired to work as personal assistants to Chinese nationals Chen Sokly and Xiong Huajun.
Sokly was identified in indictments filed on Oct 8, 2025, only as Chen Zhi’s co-conspirator 2 and described in the US documents as the alleged enforcer of the syndicate. Xiong has remained out of any sanctions list to date.
Also on the flight was Sokly and Xiong’s close associate Dai An, who was named in a second round of sanctions on June 23, and has been described by the authorities as a “high-level leader” Prince Group executive.
The three are closely tied through an intricate web of companies in Mauritius, as well as being neighbours in Singapore’s multimillion-dollar Leedon Heights estate.
The plane Sokly, Dai, Xiong, Lee and Teo were flying on belonged to another Chinese national, Hu Xiaowei. Hu was named in the October 2025 US sanctions and identified as Chen Zhi’s second-in-command.
Hu’s other known aliases – including Wu An Ming, Hu Shi and Chen Xiao’er – were all formally sanctioned by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in the US in June.
The office is part of the US Department of the Treasury. It administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on US foreign policy and national security goals against targets such as foreign countries and regimes, terrorists and international narcotics traffickers.
Xiong, Sokly and Dai were involved in the setting up of Meritwise Group Public in Mauritius, along with Singaporeans Karen Chen Xiuling and Cliff Teo Kang Yeow.
Chen is wanted by the Singapore and Taiwanese police. Teo is also wanted in Taiwan. The two are being sought for their links to the Prince Group activities.
Personal assistant
Law first became acquainted with Sokly sometime before 2017, while working in a financial services firm in Thailand.
He said that after a few meetings, Sokly, who was then his Thai firm’s client, offered him an opportunity to work for him instead. The offer was made through another Singaporean, Alan Yeo Sin Huat.
Yeo has been sanctioned by OFAC and is accused by Washington of acting as Chen Zhi’s wealth manager. He had allegedly coordinated wire transfers, corresponded with banks, managed accounts and helped to hide Prince Group’s illicit activities.
Yeo was arrested in January in Singapore.
Law is a director of three of Sokly’s firms. He is listed as a $100,000 shareholder in one of the companies.
Between 2017 and 2019, Law, a car enthusiast who has more than 58,000 followers on social media, posted photos and videos of his opulent lifestyle featuring luxury cars, expensive watches and flights on private planes.
Alfred Law Hon Kit being interviewed at Sunseeker M Singapore’s official launch in 2018. Law served as a director in the firm and was formerly hired as Chen Sokly’s personal assistant.
PHOTO: ALFRED LAW
It came soon after he was appointed the general manager of Singapore firm Skyline Info Technologies in 2017, which counted Belize-registered Skyline Worldwide and Marshall Islands-registered Skyline Worldwide Holdings as its shareholders.
Both Skyline Worldwide firms are tied to Chen Zhi, who also retained another similarly named firm – Skyline Investment Management – in Singapore.
In January 2019, Law posted an image of a name card showing himself as managing director of Awesome International Travel Services Singapore. The company, registered in Singapore in 2017, belonged to Sokly.
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