Ex-PUB officer charged with accepting around $45,000 in bribes and falsifying invoices
SINGAPORE - A former assistant engineer of national water agency PUB was on Friday (Aug 27) charged with accepting around $45,000 in bribes and falsifying invoices. Jamaludin Mohamed, a 58-year-old Singaporean, faces three counts of corruption and two of falsifying accounts. He was bribed by Singaporean Ganisan Suppiah, 51, who was the project manager of a company called Pipe Works. Ganisan, who was also charged on Friday, faces one count of corruption and two of abetting Jamaludin in falsifying invoices. Court documents state that Jamaludin allegedly accepted bribes of around $45,000 from Ganisan in exchange for facilitating and expediting work by Pipe Works that he supervised. The gratification is said to have changed hands on multiple occasions between 2017 and 2018. Sometime in July 2019, Jamaludin allegedly attempted to obtain a bribe of $500,000 from another piping works company in exchange for supporting its bid for a tender to replace water mains. That same month, he allegedly tried to get bribes from a construction company for the same tender. Both companies rejected his requests. Between Nov 16 and Nov 23, 2017, Jamaludin also allegedly prepared fake invoices under a comp...
Former SMRT employee and two others charged in corruption cases involving over $54,000
SINGAPORE - While working as an assistant buyer for SMRT, a 43-year-old man allegedly took bribes of more than $54,000. Soh Choon Heng was one of three individuals charged with corruption on Friday (Aug 20). The other two, from whom Soh is said to have taken bribes, are Yong Ming Jun, 39, and Wong King Mooi, 47. Soh and Yong are Singaporeans and Wong is a Malaysian. Yong was the director of Euro Bremse, a company selling and supplying motor vehicle spare parts and accessories, at the time of the alleged offences. Wong was then the director of CEE Technologies, a company dealing with electrical works. Soh, now described as a former SMRT employee, is said to have got at least $24,450 in bribes from Yong between 2016 and last year. He is also accused of receiving at least $28,700 in bribes from Wong between 2017 and 2019. The bribes from both Yong and Wong were allegedly given to Soh as a reward for providing them with information on quotations made to SMRT by other vendors. Soh allegedly received at least $900 in bribes from another individual, Lee Won Jong, in 2015 for a similar act. Court documents state that Lee was the director of Alturan at that time. An online search shows the ...