Wang, facing six charges, was last month handed a jail term of 16 months. Two charges were related to money laundering and the rest involved employment offences under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act.
For the money laundering charge that was proceeded on, Wang could have been jailed up to three years, or fined up to S$150,000, or both.
He was nabbed with nine other foreigners during simultaneous raids islandwide in August 2023, and was the last accused to plead guilty in court.
Those before Wang have had millions of dollars in assets, including luxury goods and properties, seized and surrendered.
Wang himself had around S$54 million in assets, including cash, cryptocurrency, luxury items and property seized or subjected to prohibition of disposal orders. He agreed to surrender about 90 per cent of these assets.
Earlier this month, Minister of State for Home Affairs and for Social and Family Development Sun Xueling said in parliament that foreigners convicted of offences in the country could indicate which country they would like to be deported to.
That said, it is not a case of the offenders saying “I choose and therefore I will be sent there”, said Ms Sun in response to a question by Ms Sylvia Lim (WP-Aljunied).
“There needs to be an assessment by the ministry as to whether or not the individual can be admissible to the country, based on the travel document that he or she holds,” she explained.
Ms Lim had asked about the considerations when deciding which countries convicted foreigners are deported to after serving their sentence, and how those considerations are applied to the offenders in the multi-billion dollar money laundering case.
In response, Ms Sun said: “Such foreigners can go to any country to which their passport or travel document allows them to go. This applies similarly to the convicted foreigners in the S$3 billion money laundering case.”
In cases where convicted foreigners possess multiple passports, Ms Sun said the ministry will have to decide which country they have the greatest likelihood of being admissible to, and then make an assessment before deporting them.
“We don’t want a situation where we try to deport an individual and actually the country to which we are deporting the individual to does not accept the individual,” she said.