NTU Don Juan did not feel 'cheated' by ex-lover

[kueytoc]

I juz can't believe he's still wanna be HERO when he's gonna be ZERO$ soon !

Sigh, so highly educated yet 'foolish at heart' !

Ngoi did not feel 'cheated' by ex-lover

Wednesday • September 27, 2006

Leong Wee Keat

weekeat@newstoday.com.sg

DESPITE the fact that she had conned him of money, and investigators' warnings not to talk to her, Bryan Ngoi Kok Ann (picture) let his ex-lover Guo Juan move in with him in August last year for three months.

This was after he came under investigation for passing false information to a government official about her paying her husband to go into marriage.

The revelation came during the prosecution's cross examination of the Nanyang Technological University don yesterday.

Ngoi, 46, told the court he did not feel "cheated" by his ex-lover despite being told that she was married after he had loaned her $10,000 and paid for their trip to China.

He also admitted to the court what he did not tell Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) investigators earlier — that Ms Guo, 26, had moved in with him in August last year, after he had been placed under bail-bond while he was being investigated.

The former nightclub singer was kicked out of the house by her husband. During her three-month stay with him, Ngoi claimed, they did not discuss the case.

He also said he did not confront Ms Guo about a tape recording of her telling her other ex-lover, Mr Augustine Yee, that her marriage was an "arranged one". Ngoi said, "It was supposed to be a secret and I did not see any point or purpose in letting her know about it."

While investigators have been unable to contact Ms Guo since April, Ngoi told the court he had last spoken to her last month, through a friend in China.

Yesterday, Deputy Public Prosecutor David Khoo suggested that Ngoi had tried to leverage on his role as chairman of the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority's (ICA) Citizenship Advisory Committee to check on Ms Guo's marital status.

DPP Khoo suggested that Ngoi had tried to portray information in his email to ICA officer Clarence Yeo in October 2003 as "reliable and important".

Ngoi had just learnt, on a trip to China together, that Ms Guo, a China national, had entered Singapore on a "visiting relative social pass". Ngoi said he only wanted to find out the authenticity of this pass — he denied sending the email to find out if Ms Guo was married.

The court also learnt that Ms Guo was not the only woman Ngoi had ###### with between October 2003 and August 2005 — there were "one to two" others.

Poring over invoices addressed to "Mr and Mrs Ngoi" from Hotel Inter-Continental, Ngoi admitted to bringing "female friends" to the hotel on 16 occasions, and that some "might also have involved Ms Guo".

The trial continues today.

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[KennethK]

Love is blind

[kueytoc]

Love is blind

yeah & it's 'leaking'... :evil: