A Nation’s Disgrace: Singapore’s Shocking Scandals

Singapore is often known as a 'clean' country and its citizens 'law-abiding'. However every once in a while the island has been shocked by an incident or a crime so unexpected and shocking it grabs headlines and piques the interest of locals and international press alike.Spanning across all kinds of crimes this collection has one thing in common - shock value. Cases covered in the book include high-profile ones like the NKF scandal the City Harvest Church debacle Singapore's most-wanted terrorist Mas Selamat and how one man in Singapore - Nick Leeson - brought down one of the UK's oldest financial institutions Barings Bank. Plus there are a few shocking murders thrown in too.This book is a collection for anyone interested in Singapore society law and history to find out more about how these cases were discovered the law-enforcement processes that followed and what happened to the offenders after the cases ended.