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Commercial Affairs Department

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National agency
  
Founded
  
1984

Legal personality
  
Governmental: Government agency

Governing body
  
General nature
  
Law enforcementCivilian police

Elected officers responsible
  
Teo Chee Hean, Deputy Prime Minister & Coordinating Minister for National Security & Minister for Home AffairsS Iswaran, Minister, Prime Minister's Office & Second Minister for Home Affairs & Second Minister for Trade and IndustryMasagos Zulkifli, Minister, Prime Minister's Office & Second Minister for Home Affairs & Second Minister for Foreign Affairs

Parent agency
  

The Commercial Affairs Department (Abbreviation: CAD; Malay: Jabatan Hal Ehwal Komersial; Chinese: 商业事务局) is a staff department of the Singapore Police Force.

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History

The department was founded in 1984 as the Commercial Crime Department with Glenn Knight as its first director.

Modern Day

As the white-collar crimes unit of the police, CAD conducts a variety of inquiries ranging from corporate irregularities such as LionGold and Data Register in 2014, as well as casino-related offences. It also has the right making arrests.

Probes

High-profile probes conducted by CAD include City Harvest Church founder Kong Hee, former bank relationship manager Vyia Lee Yock Sim who had misappropriated more than US$400,000 from seven high net-worth clients by 2006, China tourist guide Yang Yin with a widow's niece over a legal tussle assets believed to be worth $40 million.

References

Commercial Affairs Department Wikipedia


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