Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH) had taken further steps to recover millions from third-party buyers who had bought goods that were
The hospital alleged that the buyers, Cantley Lifecare and its directors Henry Hoe Yong Zhi and Soh Tian Hwee, had received a total of about $5.7 million worth of “stolen goods”, including milk powder, over a span of eight years.
The defendants allegedly paid Mr Choo bribes totalling $142,650, or about three per cent of $4.76 million of the total cost price of the “stolen goods” they had received.Khoo Teck Puat Hospital files police report over fake website As part of Mr Choo’s modus operandi, he would inform the Able Studio team of purported corporate orders from third-party buyers verbally or via e-mail or WhatsApp messages and arrange for the relevant goods to be delivered to, or collected from, various third-party buyers via WhatsApp, e-mail or phone calls.
In the defence reply filed on Oct 10, the defendants, represented by lawyer Wong Thai Yong of Wong Thai Yong LLC, denied any collusion with Mr Choo. They also said that they were not privy to what Mr Choo’s modus operandi was. They believed that the goods they had purchased were from the hospital’s suppliers, which they had managed to obtain by tagging on additional orders to the suppliers through Mr Choo.
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