{"id":65811,"date":"2026-07-03T15:26:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T07:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=65811"},"modified":"2026-07-03T15:26:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T07:26:04","slug":"porridge-shop-owner-in-singapore-faces-tax-evasion-and-laundering-charges-lamborghini-s2-4mil-cash-listed-in-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=65811","title":{"rendered":"Porridge shop owner in Singapore faces tax evasion and laundering charges; Lamborghini, S$2.4mil cash listed in claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"story-body\" role=\"article\">\n                <!-- Content data --><\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE: The owner of Eminent Frog Porridge, a popular eatery in Geylang, has been charged with evading nearly S$3.8 million in taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Buntono, 49, who goes by only one name, was on Friday (July 3) also charged with dealing with the benefits of his alleged criminal conduct.<\/p>\n<p>The cash and assets allegedly laundered include more than $2.4 million in cash, a landed property in Brockhampton Drive in Serangoon Gardens and a Lamborghini Aventador.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents did not disclose the values of the house and the car.<\/p>\n<p>The court handed down 30 charges in total comprising three counts of money laundering and 27 counts of tax-related offences.<\/p>\n<p>Buntono had allegedly understated his trade income for Years of Assessment (YAs) 2016 to 2024, resulting in close to $2 million of income tax being undercharged.<\/p>\n<p>He is said to have separately perpetuated fraud by deliberately concealing the liability of his businesses to be registered for Goods &amp; Services Tax (GST), which resulted in an undercharging of about $1.8 million in GST.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint statement, the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore and the Singapore Police Force said that the two agencies had launched a joint probe.<\/p>\n<p>For each count of money laundering, an offender can be jailed for up to 10 years, fined up to $500,000 or both.<\/p>\n<p>Buntono\u2019s case will be mentioned again in court in August. &#8211; The Straits Times\/ANN<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/aseanplus\/aseanplus-news\/2026\/07\/03\/porridge-shop-owner-in-singapore-faces-tax-evasion-and-laundering-charges-lamborghini-s24mil-cash-listed-in-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: The owner of Eminent Frog Porridge, a popular eatery in Geylang, has been charged with evading nearly S$3.8 million in taxes. Buntono, 49, who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65811","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=65811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}