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How police recovered $27m linked to China Ponzi scheme
White-collar crime unit ploughed through paperwork over 2 years to trace money trail
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Commercial Affairs Department officers (from far left) Wong Kean Yong, Tan Ruiyun and Muhammad Imran Mohamad Ayub. The trio helped to recover the ill-gotten proceeds that had been parked here.
PHOTO: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
Police work is often seen as an exciting, all-action pursuit of villains, but for the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD), it is usually a slog through reams of paperwork.
Yet, the results, as a recent case shows, can be spectacular.
