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Exclusive | Mikhy Farrera Brochez, American man at heart of Singapore’s HIV data scandal, ran Hong Kong centre for special needs children
- Brochez leaked details of 14,200 people with HIV in Singapore after serving jail time for fraud and drug-related offences there and being deported
- The 34-year-old, who used fake credentials to obtain teaching jobs, is listed as head of a Hong Kong education centre charging HK$8,000 per assessment
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The American at the centre of Singapore’s HIV data leak scandal ran education-related businesses in Hong Kong, charging as much as HK$8,000 for each assessment of a child with special needs, the South China Morning Post has found.
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Mikhy Farrera Brochez, 34, who claimed to be a child prodigy and used fake credentials to obtain teaching jobs in at least two tertiary education institutions in Singapore, is listed on the website of a Hong Kong centre called Guia Education as its executive director.
He could now face charges of fraud, according to a Hong Kong barrister with more than three decades of legal experience, highlighting the need to tighten scrutiny of foreigners who claim to be experts when they come to work in the city.
Brochez is believed to have been in Hong Kong before moving to Singapore in 2008, where he remained until he was deported last April after serving a jail term for several fraud and drug-related offences.
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He is now in the United States, where he appeared in court in Winchester, Kentucky, on February 18 to face charges of criminal trespass on his mother’s property.
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