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The friend said he had reached out to Ong via Facebook chat in 2016 with a birthday greeting, and to congratulate him on becoming fit. They stayed in touch after that.

He said: “In July 2023, we happened to be talking about the war between Russia and Ukraine on Facebook when he brought up the fact that he owned a co-living space in Spain. I did not ask him more about it then.”

There are multiple co-living spaces in Alicante that offer short-, medium- and long-term rentals. They are mostly geared towards professionals working remotely and come with co-working common spaces.

“(Ong) seemed to have become more adventurous in what he was doing to earn money, having started out working in financial services,” said the friend.

Aside from financial planning and insurance, Ong had listed on a personal website that he was a private investor in electronic dance music and cryptocurrency in 2017.

Ong was also involved in various companies.

He was formerly a director at Neo General, which was involved in general insurance and art and graphic design services. The firm has since been struck off.

A business record search showed he has one active directorship – in Ultra General, which deals with insurance and was incorporated in 1972.

A search of legal records showed Ong was a party in a $262,380.82 lawsuit in relation to Neo General in 2021, but no court orders were made in this case.

He had also filed for a protection order against a woman in 2020, but the case was withdrawn without the order being granted.

In Spain, the police are still trying to piece together the motive. Although an autopsy was completed by forensic scientists, the results have not been made public.

Footage from closed-circuit television cameras at the hotel showed Ms Fang leaving at 8.45pm on April 9. She was then picked up by a car.


Although the images were too dark, the police were still able to identify the make and model of the car by analysing its size and design details.

They traced the car’s route and set up a surveillance operation. It led to the arrest of Ong in his hotel room in Alicante on April 16, which is about 80km from Ms Fang’s hotel.

Investigations showed Ong was allegedly in the same areas in south-eastern Spain where Ms Fang was, including where her body was found.

Ong has been remanded in Spain after he was brought to court in Murcia, but has kept silent and refused to testify.

Until Ong speaks, Mr Fang said he will not be able to make sense of the incident.

He said MFA had helped his family greatly in locating his sister in Spain and repatriating her body back to Singapore.

He hopes the investigation in Spain will shed light on his sister’s death, and that her killer will be put behind bars for a long time.

“It seems the only person with the answers is the suspect, but he’s not talking. I hope the police investigates thoroughly and gives us the closure we need,” he said.