Man loses case to claw back 369,000 he spent on lavish gifts for ex-girlfriend

A Singaporean man has lost a court case to claw back hundreds of thousands of dollars that he had lavished on his ex-girlfriend while they were together. The S$468,000 ($369,200; £273,260) that Chander Agarwal attempted to recover from Felicia Lee was money he had willingly spent on her, the Singapore High Court ruled. Agarwal displayed a consistent pattern of showering [Lee] with lavish gifts even before they got together and would reassure her that he did not expect repayment, Senior Judge Lee Seiu Kin said. Agarwal, the CEO of a logistics company, met Felicia Lee, a former flight attendant, during a flight in 2019. They were in a romantic relationship from September 2022 to December 2023, the court heard.