{"id":7150,"date":"2025-12-27T02:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T02:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=7150"},"modified":"2025-12-27T02:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T02:33:14","slug":"bank-of-america-employee-charged-with-arranging-drug-gathering-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=7150","title":{"rendered":"Bank of America employee charged with arranging drug gathering in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"textFreeArticle\">\n<p>An employee of Bank of America was charged in a Singapore state court for arranging a Christmas Eve gathering where controlled drugs were consumed.<\/p>\n<p>Shawn Loo Zhi Jian allegedly met with M. Ravi, a former lawyer, to consume methamphetamine, according to a charge sheet on Friday. Ravi subsequently died. The charge sheet didn\u2019t connect Loo to Ravi\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Loo is an assistant vice president at the US bank in Singapore, according to his\u00a0LinkedIn profile. There was no immediate response from Loo to an email query. A Bank of America spokesman declined to comment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"visible-sm-block visible-xs-block m1010\">\n<div class=\"ad-container-wrapper\">\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read:<br \/>Asia stock surge and currency gains fuel 2026 investor optimism<br \/>Father-son feud plunges Singapore\u2019s richest clan into crisis<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, Loo, 40, faces a jail term of as long as 20 years and caning for the offence.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors indicated there may be additional charges. Loo is out on bail of S$20 000 ($15 575) and is scheduled to be back in court on 2 January 2026.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Singapore has some of the world\u2019s toughest drug laws.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Citizens or residents found to have consumed drugs overseas may face the same penalties as those who do so within the city-state.<\/p>\n<p>Ravi was part of a group of lawyers who acted in a\u00a0constitutional challenge\u00a0in 2014 seeking to overturn a colonial law banning sex between men. The law was\u00a0repealed in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9\u00a02025\u00a0Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Moneyweb\u2019s in-depth finance and business news on WhatsApp here.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\">\n            !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n            {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n                n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n                if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n                n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n                t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n                'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n            fbq('init', '779812924991616');\n            fbq('track', 'PageView');\n        <\/script>#Bank #America #employee #charged #arranging #drug #gathering #Singapore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An employee of Bank of America&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[301,6037,200,1024,1027,456,5182,2033],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}