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Singapore's most wanted in the 1970s
Once Singapore's most wanted, gangster Roland Tan dies after 51 years on the run
72-year-old wanted for 1969 Bras Basah murder died of heart attack in Denmark
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In the middle of a dinner party in Copenhagen last month, the host, a man of slight build with a bald pate, keeled over and died.
He was no ordinary man. Nicknamed Mr Big in Denmark for his ties to organised crime and drug smuggling, Roland Tan Tong Meng was one of Singapore's most notorious fugitives, long wanted for a murder in October 1969.
