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Following investigations by the Commercial Affairs Department of the Singapore Police Force, the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, Chua Chwee Choo (“Chua”); former Chief Financial Officer, Chow Mei Ling (“Chow”); and Senior Manager, Koh Sai Eng (“Koh”) of Singapore Kitchen Equipment Limited’s (“SKE”) were charged in court on 3 June 2026 with various offences under the Penal Code (“PC”) and the Securities and Futures Act (“SFA”). SKE is listed on the Catalist of the Singapore Exchange.

The trio were charged for allegedly engaging in a conspiracy between February and March 2021 to make false representations to SKE’s auditor, BDO LLP, in relation to bonuses paid by Q’son Kitchen Equipment Pte Ltd (“QKE”), SKE’s main operating subsidiary. To lend credence to these false representations, the trio allegedly conspired to falsify more than 100 payment vouchers belonging to QKE to purport that the bonuses were paid in January 2020, when this was not the case.

Chow also faces other charges for alleged offences in related transactions. These include charges which alleged that between 2018 and 2019, Chow willfully omitted a total of eight payments, which included the payment of the said bonuses, from QKE’s accounts for the financial years that ended on 31 December 2018 (“FY18”) and 31 December 2019 (“FY19”). These eight payments amounted to a total of approximately $1.4 million. Subsequently, Chow allegedly made further false entries to include these eight payments in QKE’s accounts for the financial year that ended on 31 December 2020 (“FY20”). 

QKE is wholly owned by SKE. Following Chow’s alleged falsification of QKE’s accounts, SKE purportedly made false statements relating to the company’s profitability in announcements of its financial statements for FY18 to FY20. These false statements are the subject matter of offences under the SFA committed with Chow’s consent, and Chow was thus charged with offences under the SFA. 

The  trio faces a total of 16 charges. Chow faces 12 charges, eight of which were amalgamated. Chua and Koh face two amalgamated charges each. These charges are for the alleged offences of fraud by false representation, falsification of accounts, forgery, or consenting to SKE making false statements that were likely to induce the sale or purchase of its securities.

If convicted, the trio faces:

1. Imprisonment of up to 20 years, or a fine, or both, for each charge involving fraud by false representation under Section 424A of the PC;
   
   
2. Imprisonment of up to 10 years, or a fine, or both, for each charge involving falsification of accounts under Section 477A of the PC; 
   
   
3. Imprisonment of up to four years, or a fine, or both, for each charge of forgery under Section 465 of the PC; and/or
   
   
4. Imprisonment of up to seven years, or a fine of up to $250,000, or both, for each charge involving the making of false or misleading statements under Section 199(b)(ii) read with Section 204(1) and Section 331(1) of the SFA. 

For each amalgamated charge, an individual may face two times that punishment if convicted.