{"id":36977,"date":"2026-03-17T19:10:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=36977"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:10:34","slug":"billion-dollar-money-laundering-case-two-former-bank-employees-handed-prohibition-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=36977","title":{"rendered":"Billion-dollar money laundering case: Two former bank employees handed prohibition orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: Prohibition orders have been issued against two former bank relationship managers convicted of offences related to money laundering, said the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Tuesday (Mar 17).<\/p>\n<p>Given &#8220;the gravity of their misconduct&#8221;, the authority said that it issued a 16-year prohibition order against Wang Qiming and a seven-year prohibition order against Liu Kai.<\/p>\n<p>Under the prohibition orders, Wang, 26, and Liu, 36, are not allowed to perform any MAS-regulated or authorised activity or business.<\/p>\n<p>They are also barred from participating in the management of any financial institution and from acting as a director, partner or manager of any financial institution.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the pair are prohibited from becoming, or increasing their interest as a substantial shareholder of, any financial institution that is a corporation.<\/p>\n<p>Wang and Liu, both Chinese nationals, were convicted of charges related to a major money-laundering case in August 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Wang, a former Citibank relationship manager, was convicted of four offences, including forgery, money laundering, and obstructing justice, in October 2025. <span>He held S$481,678 (US$377,100) in laundered cash for <\/span><span>convicted money launderer Su Baolin<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Six other charges were taken into consideration for sentencing.<\/p>\n<p><span>Wang was sentenced to two years&#8217; jail.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/mas-prohibition-order-bank-relationship-manager-wang-qiming-liu-kai-5998521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Prohibition orders have been issued against two former bank relationship managers convicted of offences related to money laundering, said the Monetary Authority of Singapore&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s---xj7veoP--\/c_crop,h_449,w_799,x_1,y_1\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2024-04:reuters_1,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/one-cms\/core\/2026-01-29T010622Z_1_LYNXMPEM0S015_RTROPTP_3_SINGAPORE-CENBANK.JPG?itok=wEpOkjTu","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4088,6195,596,7303,3833,6196,4342,2162,18323],"class_list":["post-36977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-bank","tag-billiondollar","tag-case","tag-employees","tag-handed","tag-laundering","tag-money","tag-orders","tag-prohibition","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}