Singapore has carefully constructed the gates through which nominee directors enter its corporate system, but has left those same individuals without a clear or fair path out when the foreign owners who appointed them disappear. A woman legally trapped in directorships she could not escape has brought into focus a structural asymmetry: rigorous entry controls paired with an ad hoc, incomplete exit framework. The human cost — potential disqualification for those who did nothing wrong — reveals that accountability, to be just, must be tethered to conduct and choice, not to the misfortune of bein