Hong Kong - Two Singaporean men and a Chinese man accused of trying to cash bogus cheques for 108 billion US dollars have gone on trial in a Hong Kong court, a news report said Saturday. The men produced the cheques dated 1948 at the DBS Bank in Hong Kong in April, claiming they had been entrusted to draw the money from an aunt's account, the South China Morning Post reported.
The scam fell apart when staff at the DBS, previously named the Overseas Trust Bank, told the men that their bank had not even been founded at the time the cheques were allegedly written.
Singaporeans Eddie Woon Kwok Jin, 53, and Lin Ban Hoong, 62, and mainland Chinese man Ma Ping, 32, denied charges of forgery at a hearing Friday in District Court. The case resumes Monday.
