S'porean Stan Chart banker detained by Chinese authorities
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A Singaporean Standard Chartered banker has been held by authorities in Shanghai, China, on suspicion that she aided one of the bank's clients who allegedly stole millions of dollars from Agricultural Bank of China and fled the country.
The banker, Wu Yidian Eden, a 31-year-old naturalised Singaporean, has been formally detained since March 6 after several rounds of police questioning.
Eden and her fiance, Jason Tan, were due to marry later this month in Singapore. When Eden notified the police last Tuesday that she would be leaving China for the wedding, she was detained on the spot.
According to a news report, Eden has not been charged with any crime. However, she has not been allowed to talk to a lawyer or to see her family since then. Her fiance said that consular officials from Singapore were expected to visit her this week at a detention center.
A Singapore-based Standard Chartered spokesperson, Melissa Cheah said the bank was unable to comment on Eden's detention because of the ongoing police investigation, but added that the bank was not being investigated.
STOMPer IUIU who came across this news online, wrote:
"I was actually quite surprised that a Singaporean is involved in this case.
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Naturalised singaporean.
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naturalised Singaporean is ximisai?
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Originally posted by FireIce:
naturalised Singaporean is ximisai?
it means not singaporean at birth which oso means she converted to singapore citizenship
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what you expect from Wu Yidian..............
she's the descendent of Wu ZeTian.........
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Originally posted by FireIce:
naturalised Singaporean is ximisai?
First day living in sg?
10 years later, you throw a stone randomly and it will hit a naturalised singaporean.
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i am a naturalised singaporean
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Originally posted by laurence82:
i am a naturalised singaporean
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china....
girl...
naturalized though... you don't even know what's naturalized? omg...
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oh no. those against FTs will be out in droves again.
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Betray your motherland, pay the price.
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naturalised Singaporean? what is it? i tot singaporeans all immigrants??
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isit like sterilised spayed ?
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i m a true bred purified Sg... wonder if there are any distilled ones apart from those feeding from naturalized milk?
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ok put jason tan back into the pool
next please~
give sg gers priority
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Singapore banker held in China without lawyer access: fiance
BEIJING - Police in China have held a Singaporean banker for two weeks without allowing her access to a lawyer after her client allegedly fled the country with millions of dollars, her fiance said Monday.
Eden Wu, who has worked in Shanghai for Standard Chartered's private banking business for nine months, was detained on March 6 as she prepared to travel to Singapore for her wedding, Jason Tan told AFP.
Police are investigating one of her clients, who allegedly escaped China with his family with millions in embezzled funds, he said.
"She is being questioned every day, she can't make phone calls, and she hasn't been allowed to see her lawyer," Tan said, adding that representatives at the Singapore consulate and Wu's parents had been able to visit her on Friday.
"Her mum said she has lost a lot of weight, and that she had dark circles under her eyes," he added.
Standard Chartered confirmed Wu's detention in a statement emailed to AFP, but said the firm was unable to comment due to the police probe. "But we can confirm that Standard Chartered is not being investigated," it said.
A spokeswoman for the Communist Party committee in Wuxi city, where Wu is being held, also confirmed the detention, saying it was due to "her involvement in a bank issue."
"We cannot say more about this, as police investigations are not finished," she said. Police refused to comment.
Tan -- an American who works in the United States -- said his fiancee had been cooperating with police in their probe before her detention.
But when Wu informed them she was leaving China for her wedding, police summoned her and took her in, he said, adding authorities had not allowed him to see her because he had talked to journalists and posted information online.
"They said I could see her if I promised not to post anything on the Internet or talk to the media," he said.
"I was really shocked but I said I couldn't do that, as I feel like if this story isn't told, they will just have free rein to do whatever they want to," he said.
Wu is the latest foreigner working in China to have been detained by police in sometimes controversial circumstances.
Australian national Stern Hu -- who worked for mining giant Rio Tinto -- was detained in 2009 and eventually sentenced to 10 years in prison on bribery and trade secrets charges.
Xue Feng, a Chinese-born American geologist, was also jailed for eight years last year on state secret charges over the sale of a database on China's oil industry, despite repeated US calls to release him.
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S'porean banker detained in China: Client who embezzled funds fled to Thailand
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Actually why is it her problem that her client ran off with money?
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This is why I hate moneyppl;
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Police are investigating one of her clients, who allegedly escaped China with his family with millions in embezzled funds, he said.
They have no information, as usual they bully those they can bully .
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Originally posted by TehJarVu:
ok put jason tan back into the pool
next please~
give sg gers priority
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Originally posted by FireIce:
naturalised Singaporean is ximisai?
Higher mortal than you lor.
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China releases detained Singapore banker
SHANGHAI: A Singaporean banker held for almost three months by China after a client allegedly fled the country with millions of dollars has been released, according to her fiance and mother.
However Eden Wu, who worked in private banking for British bank Standard Chartered in Shanghai when she was arrested on March 6, must remain in China for a year as authorities carry out a global manhunt for the client.
"Eden was released from residential surveillance," her fiance, Jason Tan, said in a blog posting from the United States on Thursday, adding she was released on 50,000 yuan (US$7,900) bail.
"She is also not allowed to leave China for one year," he said.
"They have determined that she has not done anything wrong and have released her, yet they are preventing her from leaving even after holding her for 79 days."
Wu's mother confirmed her daughter had been released in the eastern city of Wuxi and they were now together in Shanghai. Wu herself declined to take phone calls.
"This case has given her and our family much pressure," her mother told AFP.
Chinese media has reported the Chinese banker believed to be the target of the government investigation, Sun Feng, is the subject of a manhunt.
Sun, former head of an Agricultural Bank of China branch in Jiangyin city, fled late last year with more than 100 million yuan illegally raised from friends and relatives, the China Daily newspaper said in March.
A spokesman for police in Wuxi city, which administers Jiangyin, declined to comment.
In his blog, Tan criticised Standard Chartered for failing to do more to secure Wu's release.
"If it were not for her job at SC (Standard Chartered), Eden would never have met Sun Feng and would never have been involved in this case," he said.
In a statement Friday Standard Chartered told AFP: "We still are unable to comment further on Eden's case as this is part of an ongoing investigation by the police, but we can confirm that Standard Chartered is not being investigated."
Wu was the latest foreign national working in China to have been detained by police in sometimes controversial circumstances.
Xue Feng, a Chinese-born American geologist, was also jailed for eight years last year on state secret charges over the sale of a database on China's oil industry, despite repeated US calls to release him.
Australian Stern Hu -- who worked for mining giant Rio Tinto -- was detained in 2009 and eventually sentenced to 10 years in prison on bribery and trade secrets charges.
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Too bad.
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Sorry to say lah. I dunno why so good to become a naturalised singaporean. A lot of my countrymen migrate to singapore but I am still here because I see no point in being a singaporean power ranger living in HDB, complaining all day about PAP and working like shit - better cheaper faster.
I live in big house, low cost life - subsidised fuel and sugar and able to buy car without need for COE. Also, I get to work lacksidaisal without having to suffer from singapore work-life culture.