We refer to your email to Council for Estate Agencies (CEA),based on the information and evidences that you provided, we were unable to assist as there was no Estate Agency work done by Ms xxx. Please note that CEA will investigate into allegations of professional misconduct by the salespersons for any breaches of the Estate Agents Act and its Regulations, and guidelines issued by the CEA. For allegations of criminal wrongdoing such as fraud and cheating which appeared to be in your case, such matters will be handed by the Commercial Affairs Department of the Police.
For your information, If you have the outcome of the police’s investigations, please let us know so that we can take that into consideration in our assessment of Ms XXX in meeting our criteria as a registered salesperson.
‘I complain a Singapore Well-Known Firm Local Real Estate Agent xxx, I knew her through a Chinese Match-making website on about June 15th, 2014. She agreed to be my girlfriend immediately and she cried to ask my help for her cash-flow problem for her business. She said if I can’t help her on it she had to sell her Condo. at Belestia Road, so she advised she would sell 30% share of her Shop House property at price of S$2.60M( later on in the law firm she increase the price to S$2.8M and the lawyer can prove it), she told me to do a Trust of Deed at a lawyer firm. As she still have S$170K with the bank, so she told me to pay her cash of S$300K to have 30% share which I agreed. The lawyer told me to launch a Caveat on the shop house but later on the caveat was rejected by SLA due to the loan with UOB. I kept asking her to do an official selling/buying on the property which was declined by her with many excuses, and she didn’t pay me a cent on the rental as per Trust of Deed agreed so it made me feel she is not a reliable person and I broke up the relationship with her in early August, 2014 but just to be friends.
Later on, she asked me to lend her S$100K in a mine biz. In Indonesia, she said she would give me S$5000 per month interest, which I declined her offer as I told her it’s unsafe to do business in Indonesia; In mid of August, she asked me to invest S$100K in her Spa business in Singapore and she promised me she would take care of everything in the business and the net income per shop would be at least S$ 20K per month, so that I can easily recover my capital in 10 months time. I asked her how was the progress of the Spa biz., she told me that every thing was ready, she had invested S$ 50K in the business to start, and at that time the business was just waiting for my S$100K investment to start in 1 month’s time. After her repeated requests I handed over her S$ 100K in Cashier Order on Sep. 10th, 2014. After about 2 months time I asked her about the progress of the business, to my Shock, she told me that it would take at least 6 months to start the Spa business as she need 3 months to put CPF for 6 locals and 3 months to apply for Class 1 license. I asked her ‘why on Sep. 10th you told me the business would start in 1 month, but now it would take at least 6 months? She replied me that ‘It’s government problem, I don’t know, maybe it’s because there are too many spa shops in Singapore’. Then I told her ‘since the business not started yet, and it would take so long, you just return me back my S$100K and I don’t want to do it with you any more’. But she said ‘I’ve used up all your money in my own company to rent and equip my new office, now I have no money to pay you. If you want your S$100K back, you have to do the official buying/selling the shop house with me, but the transaction price can’t be 2.8Million any more, it must be 3 million as my shop house valuation is now 3.5 Million.’
Recall back all the facts what had happened, I’m 100% sure that I was cheated by her with her evil intention. Since she refused to pay me back a cent, I made Complain to CEA.
