Mr Mohammed Lutfi Hussin's client ended up pulling off a S$2.3 million housing loan cashback scam that caught the attention of the authorities here.
"Certainly, any lawyer who conducts himself or herself hereafter in a similar manner would risk an even more severe sanction than that imposed here," the judges added.Certainly, any lawyer who conducts himself or herself hereafter in a similar manner would risk an even more severe sanction than that imposed here.The Court of Three Judges is the highest disciplinary body to deal with lawyers' misconduct.
At the time of his offences in 2014, he was the sole director of Lutfi Law Corporation after becoming a lawyer about two decades earlier. After Mr Lutfi was fined in the State Courts, a disciplinary tribunal appointed by the Law Society of Singapore found sufficient cause of gravity to punish him for professional misconduct.
He had filed an affidavit where he said he sincerely believed he did not do anything dishonest in signing the certificate of correctness for Naseeruddin. He added that Mr Lutfi’s dishonesty was “symptomatic of a defect which runs deeper than a lapse in judgment”.