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A lawyer, who was suspended for the maximum term of five years in 2018 over professional misconduct, was back in a district court yesterday over an unrelated charge - hindering police work.
For obstructing a police officer from carrying out his duties in 2017, Wong Sin Yee, better known as Edmund Wong, was fined $2,000.
Yesterday, Deputy Public Prosecutor Foo Shi Hao told the court that Deputy Superintendent Chu Weng Kong had led an operation with his colleagues at a back lane between Lorong 14 and Lorong 16 Geylang at around 9pm on Jan 13 that year.
The officers detained about 10 people suspected of being secret society members.
Upset that a police officer who was supposedly shouting at him for being near a police operation, a lawyer shouted back, claiming that he was an officer of the Supreme court and that he was "bigger" than the police officer.