Kim Lim's ex-employee jailed 22 months for stealing Patek Philippe watch, misusing company credit card & drink driving

A Singaporean woman who worked for socialite Kim Lim stole a Patek Philippe worth S$73,000 and used the company card to spend nearly S$20,000 while clubbing.

She also took the company car and drove drunk.

On Nov. 2, Tey Jing Wen, 33, was sentenced to 22 months' jail, fined S$3,500 and disqualified from driving for two years.

She previously pleaded guilty on Oct. 8 to five charges, including theft as a servant, criminal breach of trust as an employee, driving without a licence and drink driving.

Another five charges were taken into consideration.

Previously, on Oct. 21, 2025, Lim, who is the daughter of billionaire Peter Lim, spoke about the incident on a social media livestream where she said that the "drama" had deeply hurt her.

What happened

According to Lianhe Zaobao, the court heard that Tey joined Lim's beauty and health company, KL Health, as a human resources (HR) assistant in 2022.

She rose through the ranks, becoming an HR manager after just two years, and was subsequently promoted to regional coordinator.

Tey took on a key role in the company and worked closely with Lim, with employees often asking for directives through Tey when Lim was not in the office.

In August 2024, after Lim's personal assistant resigned, Lim told Tey the combination code to the company safe, which contained some of her personal belongings.

However, Lim later forgot the combination, leaving Tey as the only one who could open the safe.

Drink driving

On Jun. 3, 2025, Tey was stopped by traffic police for driving against traffic, and was found to have a blood alcohol content higher than the legal limit.

She was also found to have been driving without a licence and third-party insurance.

It was also discovered that the car she was driving belonged to Lim.

One of her responsibilities as regional coordinator was to look after Lim's car.

Lim was not in Singapore at the time of the incident.

Tey was later released on bail.

Investigated

After Tey's arrest, Lim began to notice that her work performance was slipping and launched an internal investigation.

It revealed that in May 2025, Tey had used a company credit card to spend S$19,191 at several luxury nightclubs on eight occasions.

She also found that her Patek Philippe watch, as well as a stack of red packets containing S$8,000, had disappeared from her safe.

In her social media livestream in October 2025, Lim claimed that the red packet money was her son's.

Police investigations later found that Tey was the one who stole the items, having sold the watch for S$16,500 to a purported secondhand dealer while on bail.

She used S$13,280 of the money to repay part of her unauthorised credit card spending, and kept the remaining sum, as well as the red packet money, for herself.

She also stole nearly S$74,000 worth of other valuables, such as cash, jewellery, and perfumes.