Malaysian businessman John Soh Chee Wen and his girlfriend Quah Su-Ling, who are accused of masterminding Singapore's most serious case of stock market manipulation, have failed in their bid to stay criminal proceedings against them.
Soh and Quah, who are facing 189 charges and 178 charges respectively for their role in the penny stock crash of 2013, which wiped out $8 billion in market value, claimed that "the prosecution's conduct of the trial thus far had seriously prejudiced them, rendering a fair trial impossible".
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