gold bars

On 29 December 1971, the Gold Bars triple murders occurred when Ngo Cheng Poh, a 55-year-old businessman and gold bar smuggler, was murdered by a group of ten men alongside his employees, 57-year-old Ang Boon Chai and 51-year-old Leong Chin Woo. The group also robbed the three men of 120 gold bars worth S$500,000. The robbery-murder was masterminded by 31-year-old Andrew Chou Hock Guan, an air cargo supervisor who had been a middleman for Ngo's smuggling of gold onto flights from Singapore to Vi