Chua successful and highly educated
NOT much is known about the bachelor-businessman who was the
last to see Ms Li Hong Yan alive in March.
Attempts to contact Mr Adrian Chua Boon Chye, the 39-year-old
former owner of the plush Sentosa Cove bungalow where the Chinese
national was found dead, drew a blank.
Those who knew him described him as successful, happy-go-lucky
and friendly.
Mr Heng Lee Seng, for example, who provides corporate services
to Mr Chua's real estate investment management firm Roundhill
Capital, said the businessman always shows up at Mr Heng's HLS
Corporate Services in Tanjong Pagar cheerful.
Mr Chua founded Roundhill Capital in 2001 and has been its chief
executive since. The company has more than US$5 billion (S$6.5
billion) in investments in Asia.
He was also a director of food and beverage company Foodbex
Global between 2001 and 2006.
From 1995 to 2001, he was a vice-president in the real estate
arm of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation.
As a student, he attended Raffles
Institution and the former Raffles Junior College, before he enrolled
to study real estate at the University of California, Berkeley, where
he co-founded and became president of the Credit Union for Berkeley
Students in 1995.
He also has a master's in finance from the London Business School.
Mr Chua told the court yesterday that he now lives at Jalan Lim
Tai See in Bukit Timah.
When The Straits Times checked out the four-storey,
semi-detached house with a rooftop pool yesterday, its curtains
were drawn and all seemed quiet.
The house belongs to his parents, Mr Andy Chua and Madam Sally
Lim, who own a similar house next door.
Mr Chua's maid Aye Aye Tun, 26, was seen getting out of a black
BMW and entering the house yesterday.
The Myanmar national also took the stand in court yesterday. She
was the one who discovered Ms Li's body in the pool at the Sentosa Cove bungalow, which has since been
sold.
Neighbours at Jalan Lim Tai See said they have hardly seen Mr
Chua around. One of them said the businessman was often overseas
and was last spotted at home last year.
