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British expat Anton Casey fired by employer CrossInvest Asia and flees to Perth Australia

Wealth fund firm CrossInvest Asia has sacked British expat Anton Casey “with immediate effect”.

In a Facebook post slightly after midnight on Saturday, it said it was “deeply concerned” by the 39-year-old wealth manager’s comments on his Facebook page earlier this week, which “caused great distress amongst Singaporeans”.

“Those comments go against our core corporate and family values that are based on trust, mutual understanding and are respectful of diversity,” a spokesperson wrote, adding that CrossInvest is a family business built up in Singapore.

“Accordingly, CrossInvest Asia and Mr Casey have parted ways with immediate effect,” concluded the statement, which overnight obtained more than 470 likes and 355 shares.

Early on Friday morning, Casey had packed his bags for Perth and was seen boarding a Singapore Airlines flight with his wife, former Miss Singapore Universe pageant winner Bernice Wong, and their five-year-old son. The Singapore permanent resident had been living in Singapore for the past 12 years.

In an email to national daily The Straits Times, he offered to “volunteer (his) time and resources to community projects in order to make amends for (his) mistakes” and hoped he would be one day be able to return to Singapore and that he would be forgiven “over time“.

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Did Anton Casey just leave Singapore? (Unverified)

SMRT Ltd (Feedback) Page is back or just a clone?

Seems to be a fake troll page created:

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SMRT Ltd (Feedback) – The Troll page has been deleted by Facebook?

The work of Anton Casey’s lawyer?

What happened yesterday…

Actor Tay Ping Hui’s message to Casey: Please leave

Tay Ping Hui wrote: “When a half-wit like Anton Casey thinks he can… insult us in our own country and get away with it, it is only right that we make an example out of this pompous fool. The only thing he can do now, and I believe I speak for many Singaporeans, is to leave.”

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The Anton Casey Saga

It’s already Thursday and surprisingly, The Anton Casey Saga still hasn’t died down since it went crazily viral on Monday and I’ve been steadily following the news on EDWM all this while. Oh and in fact, even my favourite news site – Daily Mail UK (alongside with The Mirror and The Independent) picked up the news and published it online! I also heard that it was published in some of the major newspapers in Britian @_@

Well, if you didn’t read/hear about it (I’ll be VERY surprised if you didn’t), here’s what happened:

British expat Anton Casey causes uproar in Singapore after mocking “poor people” and calling a taxi driver a “retard”

Anton Casey, a fund manager married to a former Miss Singapore, Bernice Wong (above photo) has caused an uproar in the country after posting a picture of his son sitting on a train on Facebook with the caption: “Daddy, where is your car & who are all these poor people?”

Another photo shows the five-year-old in his Porsche, with an equally offensive caption: “Ahhhh reunited with my baby. Normal service can resume, once I have washed the stench of public transport off me FFS (for fuck’s sake).”

In a separate Facebook post, the former London stockbroker insulted a local cabbie for wearing a towel on his lap and hand warmers while driving. He added: “Today’s cabbie retard award goes to…Mr Arm Warmers, stripy mittens & towel on the lap man….After all, it’s only 37c outside.”

Mr Casey, 39, tried to make amends in a YouTube video, but the stunt backfired after he told viewers: “Don’t be angry at me, be angry with your mum and dad for raising you a wuss“.

Arrogant Crossinvest Banker Anton Casey calls Singaporeans a Wuss

He claims the video was “misused” and taken out of context. He tried to change his Facebook name to Anson Casey but ultimately deactivated the account to stop the abuse. The financier has received hundreds of angry comments from furious locals and death threats calling for him to leave the country immediately.

Mr Casey, a former London stockbroker, previously worked for HSBC and is married to Bernice Wong, 35, who won the Miss Singapore Universe contest in 2003. The couple married in 2008.

He later released a statement through a PR firm, Fulford Public Relations as below:

‘I would like to extend a sincere apology to the people of Singapore. I have the highest respect and regard for Singapore and the good people of Singapore; this is my home. I wish for nothing more than to be forgiven for my poor judgment and given a second chance to rebuild the trust people have had in me as a resident of this wonderful country.

Mr Casey’s firm Crossinvest Asia is investigating his comments and is set to take “appropriate action” once the review is completed. Managing director Christophe Audergon said: “Crossinvest doest not condone the comments. We believe they were made in poor taste.

Oh and if you didn’t know, even his own countrymen are ashamed of his behaviour!

However, that wasn’t the end. Later that week, Briton Anton Casey’s lawyer wrote to TR Emeritus and asked them to  take down his photos.

Dear Sirs

I have been instructed by my client to write to you to lodge a complaint that quite a few of his private pictures on his personal facebook account were uploaded onto your website on your Editorial bearing the caption :

“BRITION BELITTLES PEOPLE TAKING PUBLIC TRANSPORT”

Please assist to remove the pictures which are his personal properties and which have been taken off his facebook account without his permission. There are copyrights infringement issues.

Please help as our client is trying to quell the matter which has been blown out of all proportions. There has also been threats to harm my client, his wife and young son, which is now the subject matter of a police report.

Your kind assistance will be greatly appreciated.

Yours faithfully
WILLIAM POH

WILLIAM POH & LOUIS LIM
186 Toa Payoh Central #02-426
Singapore 310186

At the same time, TRE has offered Mr Casey a chance to give his side of the story i.e. to clarify the 2 offensive Facebook messages he had posted earlier and promised to publish Mr Casey’s clarification unedited and in full. However, Mr Casey has not indicated if he will take up their offer to explain himself.

While that was going on, his lawyer was hard at work behind the scenes and The Real Singapore received this from Facebook:

Dear TRS readers,

We are unable to comment any further or post anymore articles on the Anton Casey case since he has a lot of money and has spent quite a lot of it to get his lawyer to remove all photos and descriptions about him from our Facebook and other social media platforms on the basis of copyright infringement.

And they summoned help from their brother troll page, SMRT Ltd (Feedback) who uploaded 46 photos of Anton Casey and his son as below.

As of 24 Jan 2014, it seems that SMRT Ltd (Feedback) troll page has been deleted by Facebook?

Also, finally there is a response about this whole saga from one of our Ministers – (Law and Foreign Minister K Shanmugam) as seen from 938Live Facebook Page below:

Credits: Daily Mail UK, The Independent &Tremeritus

Wonder what’s going to happen next?

I’m not too sure but I’ll update it as necessary.
Regardless, I won’t be surprised if a repeat of the following incident happens:

• Senior Barclays banker in S’pore fired after expletive-laced rant

“You’re f**cking animals. Chinese f**cking animals.”
– Olivier Desbarres, FT from British Bank barclays 

P.s The Tuckshop had a Wanker Special last night (not sure if it’s still on now) – it’s S$12 per pint for us Singaporeans and S$120 for Anton Casey. Hilarious LOL

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