SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): The suspect in the 2016 Standard Chartered Bank robbery has been extradited to Singapore and will be charged with robbery and money laundering on Tuesday (March 17).
Canadian David James Roach allegedly robbed the bank's Holland Village branch of S$30,000 on July 7,2016, by walking into the bank and slipping the teller a note with his demands, claiming that he had a weapon.
He was deported from Thailand in January 2018, but was detained in London, at Singapore's request, while en route to Canada. The successful extradition from Britain marks the end of a lengthy process to have Roach return to Singapore's shores. British laws prohibit the authorities from extraditing Roach without such an undertaking. The country had abolished caning for criminals in 1948.
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