Anti-vax group founder Iris Koh gets new bailor

Iris Koh, founder of anti-vaccine group Healing The Divide, has a new bailor after her husband Raymond Ng Kai Hoe, who was previously her bailor, was discharged of the role due to his own cheating charges.

According to the SG Courts website, to be a bailor, one should be a Singapore citizen or permanent resident who is at least 21 years old and not currently a bankrupt or facing criminal charges.

On Feb 21, the court heard Koh's bail has been set at $30,000 and that Ms Ethel Wong is acting as her bailor.

Koh, 49, Jipson Quah, 36, a doctor who has been been suspended from practice, and Thomas Chua Cheng Soon, 43, then a clinic assistant, are accused of offences including allegedly conspiring to falsely inform the Health Promotion Board (HPB) that patients had been given the Sinopharm vaccine when they had not.

The Sinopharm vaccine had been earlier approved for use by private clinics in Singapore against the Covid-19 virus.

The trio's trial will resume on March 4.

Separately, Ng, 51, was handed 12 cheating charges involving nearly $61,000 on Feb 7.

In 2019 and 2020, he allegedly committed multiple counts of cheating linked to a company called Vendshare that dealt with vending machines.

There were 12 alleged victims and around $60,800 was involved. The amounts ranged between $1,000 and $13,900 per person.

Between Aug 25 and Dec 25, 2019, Ng allegedly cheated a man by duping him into believing payments made to Vendshare were for the co-ownership of coffee vending machines.

Ng is a former director at the firm. According to court documents, Ng purportedly dishonestly induced the man to make payments totalling $2,500 to Vendshare.

Ng also allegedly cheated 11 other people by using a similar method.

One of the men, who was purportedly duped between November 2019 and June 2020, was allegedly cheated of the largest amount - $13,900.

Ng's case will be mentioned again in court on March 7.