The Yang Yin saga will serve as an acid test of the government’s social conscience and sense of justice.
In a court action, Mdm Chung Khin Chun’s niece, Ms Hedy Mok, is alleging that Yang Yin, a Singapore PR from China, has manipulated her aunt, an 87-year-old dementia-afflicted widow, to give him control over Mdm Chung’s $40 million assets under “Lasting Power of Attorney”.
Day in day out, shocking revelation after revelation come to light and go viral online about Yang’s egoistic behaviour and apparently questionable activities with the ‘acquired’ assets.
The TRE team, diligently digging with their laudable skill of investigative journalism, has unearthed that Yang, a mere tour guide:
- Had offered online for sale a cache of expensive jewellery, rare art pieces, antiques and curios of questionable ownership.
- “Posted photos of his family holidaying in Hong Kong and Japan, as well as dinner at Jumbo Seafood restaurant on Dempsey Hill and a visit to Universal Studios. He wrote about their stays at Marina Bay Sands, Resorts World Sentosa and boutique hotel Klapsons in Hoe Chiang Road.”
In egoistically publicizing his alleged audacious acts with the assets of a widow in her twilight years, Yang has outraged the public’s social conscience and inflamed their sense of justice. The whole nation is crying out for justice.
With this backdrop, what is the PAP government doing? It has been reported:
- “The police are investigating a report by the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry after he falsely listed himself as a director of SCCCI on his name card.”
- “The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority is currently relooking Mr Yang’s permanent” residency status.
Neither of these government actions, however, relate to the apparently questionable activities he has publicly advertised/publicized online. Worse come to worse, he could only be deprived of his permanent residency and deported but nevertheless, living comfortably with the many “goodwill” from Mdm Chung. The questions of significance on everybody’s mind, however, are:
- Would the authority investigate further of any possible frauds committed in this saga? For example, how can a company with a paid-up of $10,000 support a “foreign talent” on Employment Pass with at least a salary of $3,000 a month? Did the company really make so much money to support Yang’s monthly salary?
- Did he really graduate from the prestigious Zhejiang University in China, as stated in his LinkedIn information? If you graduate from an “Ivy League” university of China, will you be working as a tour guide in the first place?
- Would Yang be able to do so because of the “quanxi” he has diligently “nurtured” as a so-called AMK GRC grassroots leader? Otherwise, how can a tour guide be given a PR so quickly (AMK GRC MP Intan Azura Mokhta praised Yang for “helping foreigners to integrate into Singapore society.” MPs Intan, Grace Fu, and PM LHL even graced photo shoots with Yang?
- The government needs to explain this to us, cause if a tour guide can easily obtain a PR, does that mean a foreign “karang guni” man can also become a PR?
The answers to these questions hinge on the will and willingness of the political leadership to act in the interest of justice as well as Singaporeans.
This will be the acid test the whole nation. Singaporeans as well as foreigners are waiting to see (cause if a tour guide can get PR in like 2 years in Singapore, I’m sure tens of thousands of foreign tour guides are all waiting to rush into Singapore to get PR!).
Edward