律师取了。钱压在律师那里，不是支票压在律师那里所以出过几个案子律师把钱卷走了。 August 12, 2009 Wednesday Law firms to lose right to hold property deal money Ministry seeks feedback on proposals to protect buyers and sellers By K.C. Vijayan, Law Correspondent ALL payments for property deals will in future be held by the Singapore Academy of Law (SAL) or commercial banks, and not law firms. General details of how this will work were released by the Law Ministry yesterday as it sought public feedback on a final solution to the longstanding problem of lawyers running off with their clients' money. In the last five years, rogue lawyers have absconded with almost $20 million in funds meant for property transactions, and held in client accounts in law firms. The Law Ministry's proposals were sparked by the need to protect monies entrusted to lawyers by buyers and sellers of properties. For instance in 2007, a 47-year-old woman who sold her property for $740,000 and hoped to use the gains of $200,000 to get (more...)