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SINGAPORE \u2013 Two Singaporeans who allegedly helped lawyer Lim Tean leave Singapore were charged in court on Aug 8.<\/p>\n
Lim was supposed to surrender on Aug 3 to begin his jail term for practising law without a valid certificate.<\/p>\n
Mohammad Adam Abd Karim, 44, and Sulaiman Muhammad Firdaus, 37, were each handed one count of engaging in a conspiracy to do an act that has a tendency to defeat the course of justice.<\/p>\n
According to court documents, the two men had made arrangements for Lim to leave Singapore on Aug 4. No further information about what they did was provided.<\/p>\n
Lim was arrested by the Royal Malaysia Police in Johor Bahru on Aug 6<\/span><\/a>, after a warrant of arrest was issued against him for failing to turn up in court in Singapore.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for the Singapore Police Force (SPF) said the next day that SPF is working closely with the Royal Malaysia Police to secure Lim\u2019s return to Singapore.<\/p>\n Lim was convicted of three charges under the Legal Profession Act in July 2024, and sentenced to six weeks\u2019 jail and a fine of $1,000<\/span><\/a> in February 2025.<\/p>\n He had attended court hearings and submitted documents on 32 occasions between April and June 2021 while not having a valid practising certificate in force.<\/p>\n He later filed an appeal in the High Court against his conviction and sentence.\u00a0<\/p>\n Prosecutors\u00a0also filed an appeal for a stiffer sentence of between five and eight months\u2019 jail.<\/p>\n In February 2026, the High Court judge allowed the prosecution\u2019s appeal and enhanced Lim\u2019s sentence to imprisonment of three months and a week<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n Lim was back in court in April, where he was fined $30,000 in a disciplinary case<\/span><\/a> over his handling of a $30,000 cheque that was meant for his client.<\/p>\n The cases against Adam and Sulaiman will be heard again in court on Aug 14.<\/p>\n For committing an act to obstruct the course of justice, an offender can be jailed for up to seven years, fined, or both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 Two Singaporeans who allegedly helped lawyer Lim Tean leave Singapore were charged in court on Aug 8. Lim was supposed to surrender on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74862,"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-74861","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\/74861","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=74861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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