A Chinese tour guide who swindled an elderly Singaporean widow out of millions has been handed an eight-year prison term in a highly-charged case that has fanned anti-immigrant sentiment in Singapore.
Yang Yin, 42, "abused a position of trust," the court judge said Friday, after he became close to 89-year-old Chung Khin Chun, a wealthy widow who suffers from dementia, and persuaded her to give him power of attorney over her affairs.
Yang and his family moved into Chung's luxury bungalow and took control of her some $40 million fortune — but due to a combination of profligate spending and fraud, she was left with just $10,000 in her bank account by the time she launched legal action against him in 2014.