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Lawrence Ang Boon Kong () is a Singaporean
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who was Director of the
Commercial Affairs Department The Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) is a staff department of the Singapore Police Force (SPF). The department was first established in 1984 as the Commercial Crime Department (CCD), it is the white-collar crimes unit of the SPF. History The d ...
from 1991 to 1999. He replaced
Glenn Knight Glenn Jeyasingam Knight (born 1945) is a Singaporean lawyer. He was the first Director of the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) when it was founded in 1984. He lost his post in 1991 after being convicted of corruption in a much-publicised tria ...
after the latter came under investigation by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau. He stepped down in October 1999 when the CAD was merged with the Commercial Crimes Division of the Singapore Police Force. Before becoming CAD Director, Ang had assisted the Commission of Inquiry into the death of National Development Minister
Teh Cheang Wan Teh Cheang Wan ( zh, s=郑章远, p=Zhèng Zhāngyuǎn; 3 March 1928 – 14 December 1986) was a Singaporean architect and politician who was a member of the governing People's Action Party. He was in charge of the Housing Development Board as m ...
, who committed
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in the midst of
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investigations. He also was the
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in the trial of Francis Seow. In Seow's trial, lawyer V. K. Dube complained that Ang had misconducted himself by making remarks which were "unwarranted, baseless and untrue." The
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fined Ang S$1,000 but he appealed to the High Court, which waived the fine after deciding that the Law Society had no jurisdiction to discipline Ang because he did not have a practising certificate, even though he was an
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and
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. On appeal to the Singapore Court of Appeal, the Court decided that because Ang was an advocate and solicitor, the jurisdiction of the Law Society did extend to him notwithstanding his lack of a practicing certificate: however, on the facts they did not uphold the fine. During his time as CAD Director, Ang headed the prosecution for cases such as that of former Member of Parliament Choo Wee Khiang and Barings Bank trader Nick Leeson. After stepping down, Ang continued to be Deputy Public Prosecutor in several cases. In 2001, he presented the prosecution's case against three men—Wan Kamil Mohamed Shafian, 34; Ibrahim Mohamed, 35; and Rosli Ahmat, 30—who had stabbed taxi driver Koh Ngiap Yong to death with a
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and stole the taxi, intending to use it as a getaway vehicle when robbing goldsmith shops. In the 2005 trial of
Took Leng How Huang Na () (26 September 199610 October 2004) was an eight-year-old Chinese national residing in Pasir Panjang, Singapore, who disappeared on 10 October 2004. Her mother, the police and the community conducted a three-week-long nationwide s ...
over the murder of Huang Na, he opened the case by outlining the prosecution's argument that Huang Na had been
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. He subjected the defence's psychiatrist, R. Nagulendran, to a vigorous cross-examination over the latter's diagnosis that Took was schizophrenic. Lawrence Ang also prosecuted former SIA employee
Teo Cheng Kiat Teo Cheng Kiat (张振杰 Zhāng Zhènjíe; born 1953) is a Chinese Singaporean who was known for embezzling $35 million from Singapore Airlines (SIA) while he was still employed there, and the embezzlement lasted for 13 years between 1987 and 20 ...
for embezzling $35 million from his company from 1987 to 2000; after his arrest by the CAD in 2000, Teo was sentenced to 24 years in jail after pleading guilty to ten charges of criminal breach of trust.


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