The death of one of Singapore’s most high-profile gangsters, and memories of a brazen 1969 mob hit, revives interest in the city-state’s history as a wellspring for organized crime by JoeReuters geddiejdk
SINGAPORE - Early one October morning in 1969, Singapore police officers found the body of a man dumped in a storm drain. He had been stabbed to death, police said, in what became one of the country’s most notorious gang killings.
The death of one of Singapore’s most high-profile gangsters, and memories of the brazen 1969 mob hit, have revived interest in the city-state’s history as a wellspring for organised crime - and surprised younger residents with no knowledge of that past in what is now regarded as one of the world’s safest cities.
Tan’s family members did not respond to requests for comment and Singapore police did not immediately have comment. Dutch and Danish police declined to comment.Whether revered or reviled, Tan has garnered new attention in his home city. Many readers didn’t seem to know organised crime had existed in the city-state: “Singapore ever got gangsters meh?” read one Facebook post.
Photograph montages, including shots of an older Tan’s slight figure in bright patterned shirts, a cigarette in hand, circulated on instant messenger services. A video of a lavish birthday party, where Tan stood over a three-tier cake as guests snapped pictures on smartphones, was widely shared. Tan ran a restaurant in Copenhagen but moved to Cambodia after being shot by his Vietnamese bodyguard in 2009, according to the second police source and local media reports. He returned to Copenhagen last year, the reports said.Singapore’s gang culture was derived from “secret societies” formed by Chinese settlers in Southeast Asia in the 1800s, said Jean Abshire, a U.S.-based academic who authored ‘The History of Singapore’.
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