Project To Help Those Wrongly Jailed

He spent six months in an Indonesian prison for embezzlement, was acquitted on appeal and now, wants to set up a group to help others like him who have been ‘wrongly discriminated’.

Businessman Leslie Ang Kok Wee, 38, plans to put in 1 million dollars to start the organization which will run like a business.

His start-up funds will come mainly from the $400,000 he received from the lawsuit he brought against the firm that brought him to Indonesia.

He did the right thing in helping others.

By Chan Hsien Rong

An Excerpt from Home, The Straits Times, Monday, 13 April 2009.