SINGAPORE, Nov. 11 -- An illegal moneylender who fled to Malaysia after fatally stabbing a debtor in 1990 has been brought back to Singapore to face justice more than three decades later, CNA reported.

Ng Kwang Keng, now 80, pleaded guilty today to a reduced charge of voluntarily causing grievous hurt with a weapon. He was originally charged with murder following the death of 27-year-old Lim Kim Leng, who owed him about S$22,000.

At the time of the incident, Ng - known in the underworld as Tai Kong - was 45. On November 6, 1990, he went to collect the debt with two men in tow. An argument broke out with Lim at the void deck of the victim's block, leading to a violent scuffle. Ng punched Lim, who chased him up a staircase, where Ng stabb...