Caning plays an integral but controversial role in Singapore’s criminal justice system, says Mark Yeo of Fortress Law Corporation. SINGAPORE: On May 19, two former actors were sentenced following their convictions for separate sexual offences. Lev Panfilov was sentenced to 11 and a half years in jail, as well as 12 strokes of the cane for raping a woman he met on Tinder. Ian Fang was sentenced to 40 months’ jail after pleading guilty to three charges of sexual penetration of a girl under 16.