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On 27 February 2025, three persons, Wei Zhaolun Alan (“Wei”), Woon Guo Jie Aaron (“Woon”) and Li Ming (“Li”), were charged with fraud by false representation in relation to purchases of servers. On 2 April 2026, a fourth person, Lim Jenny (“Lim”) was also charged in relation to this investigation. 

On 1 July 2026, Lim and Woon were handed additional charges for fraud under the Penal Code 1871 (“PC”) and money laundering under the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act 1992 (“CDSA”). Li was also handed additional charges including for fraud and fraudulent trading under the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018 (“IRDA”). Wei will be facing additional charges for fraud and money laundering on 6 July 2026.

At the time of the case, Wei, Lim and Woon were key officers of three companies – Aperia International Pte Ltd, A-Speed Infotech Pte Ltd and Aperia Cloud Services (II) Pte Ltd (collectively, the “Aperia Group”). Li was established through investigations to be the controller of another company, Luxuriate Your Life Pte Ltd (“Luxuriate Your Life”). These four companies similarly face related fraud offences, which is the first instance of corporate entities being prosecuted in relation to these investigations. 

The Police issued a prohibition of disposal order against a Good Class Bungalow (“GCB”) valued at about $55 million. Additionally, the Police have seized funds in bank accounts under investigation which are valued at approximately $1 million.

Offences by Wei, Lim, Woon and Aperia Group

The fraud charges under Section 424B read with Section 109 of the PC state that Wei, Lim and Woon engaged in a conspiracy to commit fraud in respect of the purchase of servers from three suppliers, namely, Dell, Super Micro Computer, and Asus. The charges asserted that, between November 2023 and February 2025, they falsely represented, in communications to these suppliers, that one of the Aperia Group companies would be the end-user of the servers. Lim and Woon currently face eight such charges each, while similar charges will be handed to Wei on 6 July 2026.

As these representations were found to be made by Wei, Lim and Woon in their capacities as key officers of the Aperia Group companies, these companies will similarly be facing a total of eight charges for fraud by false representation on 6 July 2026.

Money laundering charges have also been preferred against the individuals. Lim and Woon each face one charge under Section 54(1)(c) of the CDSA, for each acquiring approximately $1.2 million in their personal bank accounts, which in part, represents benefits from criminal conduct amounting to approximately $1 million.

Wei will be facing three money laundering charges on 6 July 2026, as follows:

• Two charges under Section 54(1)(c) of the CDSA for acquiring approximately $5.8 million in his personal bank accounts, which represents, in part, benefits from criminal conduct amounting to a total of approximately $3.2 million; and
  
  
• One charge under Section 54(1)(b) of the CDSA for converting property of approximately $55 million, which represents, in part, benefits from criminal conduct amounting to approximately $38 million for the purchase of a GCB. 

Offences by Li and Luxuriate Your Life 

The two fraud charges under Section 424B of the PC against Li are for committing fraud in communications with Super Micro on two occasions in November 2023. Investigations revealed that Li falsely represented that, in respect of the servers that Luxuriate Your Life intended to purchase from Super Micro, Luxuriate Your Life would hold the servers and lease them to other companies; and that he was an employee of Luxuriate Your Life.

As the said representations were found to be made by Li in his capacity as the controller of Luxuriate Your Life, the company currently faces two charges for fraud by false representation.

Li currently faces three other charges:

• One count under Section 238(4) of the IRDA, for being a knowing party to the carrying on of Luxuriate Your Life’s business in Singapore for a fraudulent purpose;
  
  
• One count under Section 3(1)(a) read with Section 12(1) of the Computer Misuse Act 1993 (“CMA”), for abetting another person to secure access without authority to a bank account held by another company; and
  
  
• One count under Section 157(3)(b) of the Companies Act 1967 (“CA”) read with Section 109 of the PC, for abetting the director of another company to omit to exercise reasonable diligence in the discharge of his duties as that company’s director.

The charges in respect of the four individuals and four companies are summarised in Annex.

If convicted, an individual faces:

• For each charge under Section 424B of the PC – an imprisonment term of up to 20 years, or with a fine, or both;
  
  
• For each charge under Section 54 of the CDSA – an imprisonment term of up to 10 years, or with a fine of up to $500,000, or both; 
  
  
• For a charge under Section 238(4) of the IRDA – an imprisonment term of up to 7 years, or a fine of up to $15,000, or both; 
  
  
• For a charge under Section 3(1)(a) of the CMA – an imprisonment term of up to 2 years, or a fine of up to $5,000, or both; and
  
  
• For a charge under Section 157(3)(b) of the CA – an imprisonment term of up to 12 months, or a fine of up to $5,000. Offenders may also be disqualified from acting as directors or taking part in the management of a company for up to five years under Section 154(2)(b) of the Companies Act.

A company faces the same punishment in the form of a fine for each charge under Section 424B of the PC.

The Police hold a zero-tolerance stance towards such offences and will act resolutely against those — whether businesses or individuals — who violate our laws, and safeguard Singapore's integrity as a trusted global financial and business hub underpinned by the rule of law.

Annex

*The additional charges against Wei and fresh charges against these three entities will be tendered in Court on 6 July 2026.