Fire at Toh Guan Road building: Cladding supplier, manager face cheating charges
SINGAPORE — Chip Soon Aluminium, the company that supplied composite panels to a building that caught fire last year, has been charged with cheating three customers.
There are five charges against the distributor, which is accused of deceiving three companies into paying for Alubond composite panels. It allegedly did so by concealing the fact that the panels’ certificates of conformity — a fire safety requirement — had been terminated.
The offences allegedly occurred in June and July 2013, two to three months after the certificates were terminated on April 5, 2013, court documents stated.
Chip Soon and its sales and marketing manager, Benny Phua Chia Ping, were charged with similar offences in September.