Porridge shop owner charged with $3.8m tax evasion, money laundering

In Singapore's Geylang district, a porridge shop owner named Buntono has been brought before the courts on 30 charges alleging nearly a decade of systematic tax concealment and money laundering — a case that quietly asks how ordinary commerce can become the surface of something far more elaborate. The alleged gap between a humble neighborhood eatery and a Lamborghini, a landed property, and millions in hidden cash is precisely the kind of distance that draws the attention of the state. When two government agencies converge on a single individual, the story is rarely only about money; it is abo