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Why crooks cannot sue for ‘fruits of their fraud’
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Those who commit wrong-doing cannot expect the courts to help them recover ill-gotten gains
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If two crooks sue each other in court for their share of the loot, it is likely that neither will receive help from the courts as the law recognises the popular saying that “two wrongs don’t make a right”.
This doctrine of illegality was recently highlighted in a High Court case in Singapore, which involved a company suing its marketing manager for using a series of fake business transactions to channel money to herself and her accomplices.
