Defence’s Case
15 The Accused stated that he is in the business of servicing and selling of second-hand handphones and his shop “Beyond Matrix” is located at Golden Mile Tower at #B1-57. He stated that he has been in this business since 2000 and that he did not have any customers with whom he traded in bulk.
16 He stated that he first got to know Lee in 2004 or 2005 as “Dave” who had informed him then that he had handphones to supply. He stated that he had saved Lee’s phone number as “ Dave Exporter ” as Lee had told him that he worked as an “ exporter and importer” and he had given him the name of his company. It was for this reason he had believed that Lee was an exporter and importer of handphones on April/May 2006 when he had approached him for the sale of the Motorola handphones [note: 6] . According to the Accused, he had met Lee about seven to ten times prior to this incident and that his conversations with Lee revealed that he (Lee) knew a lot about handphones, especially those which were yet to be launched in Singapore.