Singapore jails armed Malaysian gang for US$3.9 million ‘lightning heist’ at bungalow
The prosecution said the theft at the home, where a woman held high-stakes poker games, was one of the highest-value robberies in Singapore
Prosecutors said seven men entered the King Albert Park good class bungalow in the early hours of April 18, 2024, in a “lightning heist”, some of them armed with machetes and baseball bats. They tied up the people inside and stole about S$4.9 million (US$3.9 million) in cash, valuables and cryptocurrency.
Most of the men in the group were subsequently arrested and taken back to Singapore to face prosecution. One man, 33-year-old Malaysian Muhammad Yusuf Kassim, remains at large and is believed to have left Malaysia for Thailand, court documents stated.
