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Molek FMWoman From Netflix’s ‘Con Mum’ Charged For Alleged Fraud In Singapore
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The woman at the centre of Netflix’s explosive Con Mum documentary, Dionne Marie Hanna, appeared before Singapore’s State Courts on Saturday, 5 April, to face multiple fraud charges, reported the Malay Mail.
The 84-year-old British national was arrested on 28 March, just three days after the documentary began streaming. The film, which gripped viewers across the region, details how Hanna allegedly reconnected with her estranged son only to con him out of large sums of money, leaving him in financial ruin.
According to Channel News Asia (CNA), Hanna appeared in court remotely from her hospital bed at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, dressed in a striped shirt and accompanied by an investigating officer.
Unrepresented by legal counsel, she was formally charged with five counts of fraud involving three victims across France and Singapore.
Authorities allege that Hanna used a combination of fabricated stories—including claims of royal lineage, terminal illness, and vast inheritance—to gain the trust of her victims and manipulate them into transferring large amounts of money.
Victims were told the funds were necessary to cover legal fees, open foreign bank accounts, or facilitate investment opportunities, with repeated assurances that she would reimburse them from her supposed inheritance.
In two instances reported to have occurred in France between 3 and 5 March, Hanna allegedly tricked a man named Paiman Supangat into increasing his financial contributions by falsely claiming he needed to pay legal costs for setting up a bank account.
She also allegedly borrowed money under the guise of personal shopping expenses, with empty promises of repayment.
From 17 February to 10 March in Singapore, Hanna is accused of further deceiving Supangat by claiming she was a terminally ill member of the Brunei royal family and that she intended to leave her “fortune” to him and his son.
On 10 March, she allegedly used the same fabricated story to mislead a second victim, Mohamed Syafiq Paiman, again expressing her intent to include him in her fictional will.
A third case involves a man named Mohamed Ariffin Mohamed Kawaja Kamaludin, whom Hanna allegedly deceived at the Grand Hyatt Hotel between 13 and 14 February.
She is said to have told him she had terminal cancer and planned to donate SGD3 million (RM9.88 million) to Masjid Khalid and another SGD2 million (RM6.6 million) to Mawar Community Services, a local non-profit organisation supporting former inmates.
The official charge sheets did not disclose the exact amounts lost by each victim. However, Singapore police confirmed on Friday, 4 April, that Hanna is linked to at least five separate cheating cases with losses exceeding SGD200,000 (RM663,692).
Prosecutors requested that she remain in custody for an additional week after her discharge from the hospital to facilitate further investigations, a request which the judge granted.
When asked by the court if she understood the charges, Hanna gave a faint “yes.”
Her case is set to return for mention on 11 April.
Since the release of Con Mum on 25 March, Singapore police have received multiple reports from individuals claiming to have fallen victim to Hanna’s alleged schemes, which have now come under renewed public and legal scrutiny.
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