6 men plead guilty to S$4.9 million armed gang robbery at King Albert Park house
Two of the men hatched a plan to rob the house after learning that a woman regularly held high-stakes poker games there.
A gang of seven men from Malaysia entered a house in King Albert Park, Singapore, with weapons and masks in the early hours of April 18, 2024, after learning of frequent high-stakes poker games being held there. The gang, led by Wong Chi Shan and Goh Boon Tong, had planned the robbery for months, with Goh hiring Hamidon Ahmed to provide additional muscle.
The robbers, armed with machetes and baseball bats, entered the unlocked house through the gate and main door, where they found a woman hosting a poker game along with her husband, a Korean card dealer, and a masseuse. The robbers bound and gagged the victims, searching for cash, valuables, and cryptocurrency. Despite the theft, only a portion of the S$4.9 million was recovered by the Singapore Police Force.
The six men who pleaded guilty to armed gang robbery were sentenced to between seven years and eight months and 13 years and one month, with 24 strokes of the cane, while Wong and Goh were also charged with prostitution-related offenses.
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