Man allegedly duped 3 building contractors into believing the cladding he sold was fire-safety certified

SINGAPORE – A man whose company was linked to a building in Toh Guan Road that caught fire, killing a woman, allegedly duped three contractors of other buildings into believing that the cladding he sold them was covered by fire-safety certification.

However, the materials had, in fact, failed safety tests that had been carried out on them.

On the first day of his trial on Monday (March 2), a district court heard that Benny Phua Chia Ping, 41, who is sales and marketing manager of Chip Soon Aluminium, now faces five counts of cheating.