Ex-BSI Banker to Appeal Conviction in Singapore 1MDB-Linked Case
- Yeo Jiawei sentenced to 30 months jail for obstructing justice
- Term is harshest sentence handed down by Singapore in probe
Yeo Jiawei, a former BSI SA banker found guilty of attempting to tamper with witnesses in a Singapore probe linked to 1Malaysia Development Bhd., will appeal his conviction and sentence, according to his lawyer.
Yeo, 34, was sentenced on Dec. 22 to a 30-month jail term, the longest yet handed down by the city’s courts in 1MDB-related cases. His lawyer Philip Fong confirmed Yeo will appeal and declined to comment further. Yeo is the third former BSI banker to be found guilty in the city’s 1MDB investigations.
Yak Yew Chee was sentenced in November to an 18-week jail term and fined for forging documents and failing to disclose suspicious transactions allegedly related to Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho. Another banker, Yvonne Seah Yew Foong, was jailed for two weeks and fined on Dec. 16 for similar offenses. Yak and Seah didn’t file appeals, according to their lawyers.