ACCUSED WANTED TO TAKE CONTROL OF CARS QUICKLY
On the day of the raids, Liew drove Su out of Singapore via Tuas Checkpoint in the evening.
He dropped Su off at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Aug 17, 2023, before heading back to Singapore alone.
Before he flew off, Su told Liew to help him sell his four luxury cars, which were in his house. These were a Rolls Royce Phantom, a Rolls Royce Cullinan, a Ferrari F8 Spider and a Ferrari Stradale. Su left Liew the keys to his cars.
Liew agreed as he expected to get about 1 per cent of the commission for the sale price of the four cars, and he estimated that the four cars were worth about S$8 million.
On Aug 18, 2023, Liew went to Su’s house and progressively drove the four cars to a multi-storey car park at Upper Boon Keng Road.
He had not found a buyer at that point but wanted to take control of the cars quickly, the prosecution told the court.
Liew then contacted a car brokerage company, Pro Carz, for the purposes of selling the vehicles before shifting them to another car park at Roxy Square in the Marine Parade area.
By the time the police raided Su’s house on Sep 4, 2023, the authorities could not find Su or the four cars.
LIED DUE TO GREED
Liew had his statement recorded on Sep 11, 2023.
By then, he suspected that Su was wanted by the police as he had repeatedly failed to contact him. In his statement, Liew lied that Su had not left any valuable properties in his possession.
He lied out of greed as he wanted the S$80,000 in commission expected from the sale of the cars, according to the prosecution.
Concerned about investigations, Liew then drove the four cars back to the multi-storey car park at Upper Boon Keng Road to get rid of them.
This car park was newly built, so the parking system was not ready.
The four cars were left there until the police found them in October 2023.
The authorities managed to trace the cars’ movement to Roxy Square’s car park, and found that a car dealer had applied for season parking for luxury cars there.
The dealer revealed that the four cars were in Liew’s possession. The authorities then arrested Liew on Oct 5, 2023.
Liew lied to the police in one of Singapore’s “biggest and more complex investigations”, the prosecution said in seeking three to four months’ jail for Liew.
“As a result of his provision of false information to the police and the movement of the cars, the police only managed to recover the properties almost one month later, and only upon receiving intelligence and expending significant effort in investigations.
“This effectively frustrated the police’s investigations into these specific properties for a significant period,” said Deputy Public Prosecutor Louis Ngia.
