SCTP: Shine a Light into the Darkness of Crypto Fraud

Recommended: Know what it takes to manage cryptoassets fraud in this digital age

Date:

01 June 2022, Wednesday

Closing date: 25 May 2022, Wednesday, or when spaces are filled

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Time:

10.30 - 11.45AM

Tech check from 10.15am (1.25 CPE Hours (Non-Tax))

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Online Classroom

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Complimentary

Contact:

Contact Nabila (+(65) 6360 5969), Anna (+(65) 6360 5979) or enquiry@sctp.org.sg

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Programme Synopsis

"Singapore court freezes $9.6m in cryptocurrency stolen by unidentified perpetrators"

"Singaporean impersonated US game developer chairman to buy $7m of cloud services for crypto mining"

The above news were just days apart in March 2022. We see media stories on cryptocurrencies almost daily. With more businesses jumping in on the bandwagon to tap on this new asset class, revenue source, or business model, we are seeing an increase in fraud incidences.

Join Ms Wendy Lin and Ms Leow Jiamin, both Commercial & Corporate Disputes Partners at WongPartnership LLP, as they explain the possible dangers as businesses adapt to using digital tokens and what can be done when there is fraud/ theft.

Programme Outline

Gain an awareness of the new business model in this digital era
- Types of digital transactions and business models
- Process of how cryptocurrencies are used and traded
Understand how fraud occurs ain digital transactions
- The various types of fraud in the digital world
- How digital fraud occurs
- Discussion of the Court decision in CLM v CLN & Ors, the crypto mining fraud prosecution and other relevant Court decisions
Know what to do in a crypto fraud
- Tracing, freezing and recovering stolen cryptoassets
- Implications following recent Court Decisions

About the Facilitator(s)

Ms Wendy Lin
Partner, Commercial Corporate Disputes
WongPartnership LLP

Wendy has an active practice in high-value, multi-jurisdictional, and complex disputes both before the Singapore Courts and in arbitrations conducted under all major arbitral rules, spanning a wide array of commercial and corporate, cross-border trade and investment, fraud and asset recovery disputes.

Wendy earned the rare distinction in 2020 and 2021 of being selected as a Global Leader by Who’s Who Legal in 3 practice areas: Litigation, Arbitration and Asset Recovery. This built on her achievement in 2018, where her peers selected her as a “standout practitioner” and one of the four most highly-regarded litigation partners in Asia-Pacific under the age of 45 in the inaugural edition Who's Who Legal: Litigation – Future Leaders.

Ms Leow Jiamin
Commercial & Corporate Disputes Practice Partner
WongPartnership LLP

An engineer by first training before reading and practising law, Jiamin handles a wide range of Court and arbitration matters, ranging from commercial and corporate disputes, cross border disputes, fraud, asset recovery, to intellectual property disputes.

Jiamin currently serves in the Cybersecurity and Data Protection Committee and Intellectual Property Committee of the Singapore Law Society, the Asset Recovery Next Gen Committee, and the ICC Singapore Arbitration Group Core Committee. She was mentioned in Legal 500 (Asia Pacific) in 2019, and IAM Patent 1000 (Singapore) in 2020. She is also fluent in Mandarin.

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