Zaihan Mohamed Yusof

Senior Crime Correspondent

Zaihan is The Straits Times’ senior crime correspondent. He joined SPH in 1999 as a photographer, but discovered a love for journalism and became a reporter specialising in crime news and road safety. A recipient of SPH’s Journalist of the Year and Story of the Year awards in 2012, he is known for his investigative reporting on international football match-fixing. He is passionate about motorcycling and has written two books – on road safety and football match-fixing.

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Probe into self-styled wealth guru Jason Fong’s business widens

Wealth guru Takeshi Lim Jian Bin with the couple. Diana Goh has written on her FB about how she was detained at Woodlands Checkpoint in an investigation into her ex-husband’s cheating case.

Majority of residents of brick-faced Tampines blocks vote for paint that matches original colour

The decision was made after more than three-quarters of the residents of the eight blocks had cast their votes for one of three proposed colour schemes.

How food, people-to-people ties and an Indian international school helped Siglap get a park

Yarrow Park was carved from a cluster of five basketball courts which sat on premises previously leased by the Global Indian International School in Cheviot Hill.

Self-claimed wealth gurus who drove Lamborghinis now made bankrupt; investors worry about their $5m

Businessmen Takeshi Lim Jian Bin (left) and Jason Fong Wai Hong at a financial wealth seminar in 2023.

Internet-enabled scams and AI pose challenges, Shanmugam says at MHA scholarship event

Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security K. Shanmugam (2nd from right) and Commissioner of Police How Kwang Hwee (right) speaking to SPF scholarship recipients Charlene Tan and Raynen Ngoh on Aug 18.

Investors seek answers after boss of vending machine firm declared bankrupt

Lim Jian Bin, who is also known by his online moniker Takeshi Lim, was declared bankrupt on July 14.

Police to train teachers to detect gang involvement in schools

Muhammad Farhan Fauzi (left) and Nur Azlinda Zulkifli, two desistors and former drug abusers who have turned their lives around.

Victims in S’pore, Hong Kong, Macau lose millions in alleged ‘Fun Coffee’ Ponzi scheme

Fun Coffee’s app went offline on July 20, leaving investors unable to withdraw their funds.

Recent developments in youth radicalisation landscape a worrying trend: Shanmugam

In his speech, Coordinating Minister for National Security K.Shanmugam says self-radicalised individuals dealt with under the Internal Security Act (ISA) are getting younger.

Scammer allegedly duped 6 foreign nationals into paying $14k for non-existent work permits

ST understands the alleged scammer - Abdul Raheem - is already being investigated for a similar scam in 2025 involving another group of foreign nationals.

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