The driver has pleaded guilty, and the court heard he received a reduced sentence for agreeing to be a witness.
A Sydney chartered accountant, Dominic Li, died after an attack that was meant to flush out his brother-in-law, Phillip Ma, an investment consultant who had gone into hiding from the gang after they gave him drug proceeds to launder, Central Local Court heard. It was meant to leave Mr Li scarred and disfigured and looking "like a pig", according to taped conversations between the accused. Tan and Chang planned an attack to "make [Li] look like a pig" . The bungled punishment contract was revealed when five men faced the court charged with Mr Li's murder.
AS METHODS of murders go, Sydney has seen it all. He said the attack involved extreme cruelty and inflicted ghastly injuries on Mr Li, who died a slow and horrible death. 24min. Yonky Tan.
The Supreme Court has been told that the attack was an attempt to find Mr Li's brother-in-law, who had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars given to him by Tan, to launder through a casino. Subtitles. Police said Mr Li had no connection with the drug gang, but in 2002 had unwittingly referred a gang member, Yonky Tan, to his brother-in-law for what he thought was investment advice for foreign students. I didn't even see Mr Li. Tan was rattled. An associate of Tan, Marcel The, had just been arrested, and was later convicted, over the supply of 25 kilograms of ecstasy.
The acid blinded him, burnt holes in his oesophagus and put him into hospital, where he died three weeks later from his internal injuries. The story starts in March 2002, when police became curious about a restaurant run by Tan and his partner, Emil Chang. Members of an Asian crime gang were so enraged over losing $500,000 from drug proceeds that they killed an innocent man by forcing him to drink hydrochloric acid, a court heard yesterday.
Mr Sua and the other man, friends from Tregear, denied it was them at Mr Li's door pistol whipping him before pouring acid on his head. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), EU takes UK to court over latest Brexit stoush, Man who bashed pregnant woman turns back on victim in court, 'You know you're dying': Navalny reveals what it's like to suffer Novichok poisoning, 'Whole lot of stupid actions' led to Juukan Gorge destruction, says former Rio Tinto executive, Royal commission finds faults in aged care coronavirus response, Port Adelaide takes down Geelong to earn home preliminary final, New rules flagged for round two after 'worst presidential debate ever', Council prepares to 'turn Melbourne back on' with major overhaul to outdoor dining precincts, NT police officer faces court, charged with rape, PM takes a billion-dollar punt on manufacturing to salvage economy, 'Grossly derelict' doctor who woke patients up mid-surgery stripped of medical licence, Why the true number of coronavirus deaths is likely almost double the official toll, 'Kick in the guts': Wage increase for 400,000 public servants in NSW slashed, Manu was working in a commercial laundry when her boss discovered she had a double masters degree, 'We have higher incomes': Premier says desire for WA tourist dollars driving anti-border push, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend in 'deep pain' after losing their baby, Wesley is being sued for a bad review about a Thailand hotel. I didn't even see Mr Li. Police allege that as a scare tactic aimed at Mr Ma, Mr Li was forced to swallow the acid outside his Concord home on December 13, 2002.
But on June 21, he was found dead in his cell. The Herald can now reveal the story the jury did not know - the events that started with police surveillance of a massive ecstasy manufacturing operation above a restaurant in Anzac Parade, Kingsford, and that ended nine months later in Mr Li's attack. Tan was finally brought to account for the drugs. They had even threatened to chop his head off.
Mr Ma said Tan was a client of Dominic Li and the two met after Tan told Mr Li he had money to invest and wanted to set up a company. Mr Li was targeted after his wife's brother, Phillip Ma, allegedly gambled away $500,000 which belonged to a drug syndicate, and then went into hiding. He said Tan had told him the money was from fees for immigration work. Under questioning by the Crown prosecutor, Christopher Maxwell, QC, Mr Ma said he did not understand what "launder" meant, but did understand what "clean money" was.
This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. Speaking outside the court, Detective Inspector Murray Chapman, said investigators were pleased with the sentence. Tan, who is already serving a 24 year jail term for supplying a large amount of ecstasy, was found guilty last December of murdering Dominic Li, 45. The six-year-old … Li was attacked by two men in front of his wife on the porch of their Sydney home on December 13, 2002 and died nearly three weeks later. A man has been handed a life sentence over the murder of a Sydney accountant who was doused in acid. The attack was allegedly orchestrated by Yonky Tan, the man whose money Mr Ma was gambling with, who wanted to flush Mr Ma out of hiding. Photo: Handout, Tan Tong Meng, one of Singapore’s most wanted fugitives, died recently in Denmark, where he fled to after killing a man some five decades ago, The city state used to be home to gangs involved in human trafficking, prostitution and drug smuggling, until police crackdowns in the 1990s rooted them out. Satorre, 38, was aware that the intention was to "permanently disfigure" Mr Li, but had been reassured that he would not be killed, the court heard. Yonky Irvin Tan was convicted over organising his murder.
Guns, knives, rocks, drowning, poisoning, suffocation. But it was the cold-blooded barbarity of the killing of Dominic Li that was so shocking. English. The attack was allegedly orchestrated by Yonky Tan, the man whose money Mr Ma was gambling with, who wanted to flush Mr Ma out of hiding.
He said he had received SMS messages before and after Mr Li's death. He said Tan had told him he knew people who could shoot him. By the following summer those gaming excursions had come to a violent conclusion. I am going to chop your bones into pieces," was one he recalled. Raha and Kodhr. "I didn't even see the house. They were Dax Satorre, 36, of Rooty Hill, Yonky Tan, 39, of Mardi, near Wyong, Harold Amurao, 35, of Blacktown, Maua Sua, 24, and Richard Nimmo, 24, both of Tregear. "They threw acid on me" was all Dominic Li could say before he suffered an agonising death from an horrific attack on his front porch. Though Chang was charged over Mr Li's murder he died bizarrely in a Thai jail by running into a wall. Mr Ma said he met Tan outside the Star City Casino but explained that he would have to go to Melbourne to gamble the $800,000 because he had voluntarily excluded himself from Star City because of heavy gambling losses. English [CC] Audio languages.
The preliminary cause of his death was given as a broken neck, which Thai authorities said appeared to have been self-inflicted. I didn't even see Mr Li. Mr Li allegedly put him in touch with Ma, who ran an investment company. The man convicted yesterday was the mastermind, Yonky Irvin Tan. ", Death threats emerge in acid killing trial. In facts presented to the magistrate, Allan Moore, police alleged that Mr Ma had gone into hiding from the gang. The driver, known as E, has been giving evidence at the Supreme Court murder trial of Sua, Nimmo and Yonky Irvin Tan, who is accused of setting up the contract for the attack.
Mr Ma would later tell the Supreme Court he lost more than $500,000 and went into hiding. Last year Tan was sentenced to 24 years' jail following the seizure of $4.26 million of tablets.
The driver has pleaded guilty, and the court heard he received a reduced sentence for agreeing to be a witness. All five men were refused bail and will appear again on September 21 via video link. Tan Tong Meng, aka Mr Big, died of a heart attack in Denmark in April 2020.
Those acquitted were Maua Sua, a self-confessed drug dealer, and another man.
Innocent man forced to drink acid over drug money feud, court told. No cause of death was cited but He was doused with hydrochloric acid on his doorstep by men posing as couriers. He said that soon after, Tan gave him $300,000 in cash in a rice bag. Yonky Irvin Tan was found guilty today in the NSW Supreme Court of arranging the December 2002 attack in which Li had hydrochloric acid poured on his face and down his throat. All four children in the Tan family were found dead in their flat: they were hacked and slashed to death and their bodies were left piled on top of each other. Last year Tan was sentenced to 24 years' jail following the seizure of $4.26 million of tablets. Advertising helps us continue to provide quality content. Asked yesterday by his defence barrister, Mitchell Paish, how he felt about Mr Li's family, Satorre replied: "I feel sorry for the wife ... because I know I caused him so much grief, pain and suffering.".
Tan was convicted yesterday of planning the attack on Li. July 3, 2010. The children ranged from 5 to 10 years of age at the time of death. His experience is a lesson for others, Sonny Bill Williams ruled out of Roosters-Panthers NRL final, Calls for national illegal worker amnesty as labour shortage crisis hits boiling point. When he answered the door of his Churchill Crescent house about 7.30am, two men pretending to be couriers pistol-whipped him to the ground and forced him to drink the acid in front of his wife. He was referring to the alleged masterminds of the attack, Emil Chang, 41, and Yonky Irvin Tan, who had allegedly been importing, duplicating and selling ecstasy in the Maroubra area in early 2002.
But the two men accused of physically carrying out the attack, Richard Burton Nimmo and Maua Sua, were acquitted. It was meant to be filmed as proof to gang bosses that it had been carried out, according to detectives from the South-East Asian Crime Squad, who formed Strike Force Bison to investigate the killing.
It has been alleged that Mr Ma was to launder Tan's money, for a commission, through the casinos. He was referring to the alleged masterminds of the attack, Emil Chang, 41, and Yonky Irvin Tan, who had allegedly been importing, duplicating and selling ecstasy in the Maroubra area in early 2002.
Justice Timothy Studdert said it was a "dreadful crime" and will sentence Satorre on a date to be fixed. They had given him $860,000, stuffed in rice bags, to launder. "I didn't even see the house. He had been told by an alleged go-between, Harold Evangelista Amurao, 35 that "they just gonna scare the guy and pour some liquid, like acid on the face because apparently the Harold's boss want that guy to suffer". … He had been promised $1000 to drive them there and was motivated by his addiction to the methylamphetamine "shabu" and the promise of a continued supply, the court heard.
It followed a bizarre poster campaign in which pictures of Mr Ma were posted around Ashfield, saying: "Wanted, Dead or Alive, Phillip Ma".
Mr Ma said that after Mr Li's death police helped set up an undercover meeting in which he wore a listening device.