Jun 18, 2010Man arrested for bribery bidBy Lee Jia XinPOLICE have arrested a man for suspected drink-driving and attempting to bribe a police officer. The 61-year-old was involved in a traffic accident involving his car and a motorcycle along Aljunied Road on Wednesday. He failed a breathalyser test at the accident scene and tried to bribe the police officer investigating the case. He was arrested on charges of drink driving and attempted bribery.A breath evidential analyser test showed that the driver's breath contained 61 micrograms of alcohol per 100 ml of breath, significantly higher thanthe legally prescribed limit of 35 micrograms per 100 ml of breath. The police are investigating the driver for drink driving while the charge of attempted bribery has been referred to the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB).
Volunteer police officer charged with asking for sexual favoursSINGAPORE: A volunteer police officer was charged in court Thursday with asking for sexual services and accepting money while carrying out anti-vice activities. Ng Wan Fu Ivan, a Volunteer Special Constabulary, faces three charges of allegedly asking for sexual favours from three female Chinese nationals between May and December 2007 so as to not arrest them on suspicion of prostitution. The 26-year-old, who is attached to the Marine Parade Neighbourhood Police Centre, also faces an additional charge of allegedly receiving $108 from another female Chinese national as a reward for providing information on a police raid. A pre-trial conference will be held on July 16 and he is currently out on bail. If convicted, he can be jailed up to five years or fined up to $100,000. - CNA/jy
NUScast | August 22, 2010 | 1 likes, 0 dislikesby Prof Robert KlitgaardLi Ka Shing ProfessorLee Kuan Yew School of Public PolicyNational University of SingaporeSYNOPSISAt the end of his classic 1985 book Bribes, John T. Noonan predicted that corruption would someday virtually disappear, like slavery. This may already have happened in Singapore. But in much of the rest of the world, despite corruption being the number one or two issue in political campaigns, corruption persists. Sometimes we even see re-corruption, like re-inflation, where a new regime comes in and old problems recur. What is the future of corruption? Given that the best way to predict the future is to shape it, what might we do to make Noonan's forecast come true?Date: Thursday, 12 August 2010Time: 5.15 p.m. - 6.30 p.m.Venue: Seminar Room 4-4, Level 4Block B, Faculty of Law, NUS Bukit Timah Campus469G Bukit Timah Road Singapore 259776
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_632500.htmlSingaporeHome > Breaking News > Singapore > Story Feb 8, 2011 Fined $2,000 for hiring fall guy for traffic offence By Khushwant Singh Evangeline Tay Sun Ann, 22, was fined $2,000 by the district court for perverting the course of justice. -- ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIMSHE got a police friend to rope in a woman to take the rap for beating a red light for the price of $1,000. For perverting the course of justice in 2008, Evangeline Tay Sun Ann, 22, was fined $2,000 on Feb 8.Through lawyer Lim Kia Tong, Tay, who is now studying for a business degree at the Singapore Institute of Management, said she intends to appeal against the fine.Her two accomplices were both jailed. Former deputy superintendent of police Kelvin Choo Yew Beng, 40, was sentenced to six months in jail in April last year for getting Leung Man Kwan to take the rap for Tay. For her role, Leung, 35, a property agent, was jailed three months in 2009.In Tay's case, District Judge Jill Tan said that psychiatric reports indicated that there was a 'causal link' between Tay's depression and the commission of the offence. As she had kept on the right side of the law since 2008 and there was little chance of her repeating the offence, the judge found that it was not necessary to impose probation or a jail term.Tay had pleaded guilty late last year. Then, the court heard that she ran a red light at the junction of Lornie Road and Sime Road in January 2008. She had taken a Bulgarian business manager's car out for a spin without his consent while he was abroad. Tay, who had been staying in the Bulgarian's house, knew she had been caught as she saw the camera flash go off.Worried because she was driving without a licence and without the permission of the car's owner, she turned to Choo for help. Tay, who is the last to be dealt with, has also been fined a total of $1,900 for driving the car without a licence, without insurance and for beating the red light.
Man jailed for accepting bribesSINGAPORE: A former PUB senior technician was on Wednesday jailed four months after accepting bribes totalling nearly S$2,300. In addition, 41-year-old Jumat Omar was ordered by a district court to pay a penalty equivalent to the amount he had corruptly obtained.Jumat pleaded guilty to three graft charges and four remaining ones were taken into consideration.He committed the offences between late 2006 and April 2009.Jumat used to work at the agency's sewer repair section and one of his duties was to notify private homeowners whenever their sewer lines needed to be repaired.He was also tasked with recommending contractors to affected residents.To prevent favouritism, Jumat had to provide homeowners with a minimum of three referrals from PUB's list of recommended companies.Assistant Public Prosecutor S Puspha told the court Jumat took the bribes in exchange for being more lenient to sub-contractors when they performed their jobs.One of them was PMPS Liner Technology, a company that deals with sewer rehabilitation.Jumat went for drinks and entertainment with two of its directors at Superstar KTV Club at Hotel Royal on February 20, 2009.His share of the bill came up to nearly S$400 and it was settled by one of them, Yeo Soon Tian, said APP Puspha. In another incident, court papers stated that Mr Yeo shelled out more than S$750 in March 2009 to repair Jumat's damaged laptop computer. MediaCorp understands that the other parties involved in these cases haven't been dealt with in court yet.Jumat could have been jailed up to seven years and fined a maximum of S$100,000 for each corruption charge.-CNA/wk
Mar 30, 2011Two jailed for passport and bribery offencesBy Elena ChongKrishna Rao Rajahram, 31, was given 18 months' jail and ordered to pay a penalty of $2,000 and his accomplice, Loganathan Samugam, 26, was given 12 months' jail.TWO former auxiliary police officers were jailed on Wednesday for conspiring with several others to commit a passport offence and for bribery.Krishna Rao Rajahram, 31, was given 18 months' jail and ordered to pay a penalty of $2,000 after he admitted to three of five charges.His accomplice, Loganathan Samugam, 26, was given 12 months' jail after pleading guilty to two charges. He had corruptly agreed to accept $2,000 from one Sivarajah Paki, also known as Rathan, in return for not screening a Sri Lankan national before the latter boarded a Paris-bound flight last October using a Malaysian man's passport and boarding pass at Changi Airport.His role in the conspiracy was to retrieve travel documents from a toilet at the transit lounge and hand them to the Sri Lankan Murugesu Navaratnarasa,. He would then guide the man to the departure gate where Rajahram would be stationed.But the passenger, together with the two Aetos officers, was arrested by Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officers before he could board the Paris-bound flight.In the case of Rajahram, he received a bribe of $2,000 from Sivarajah at a carpark near Sim Lim Square on Oct 10, three days after another Sri Lankan had succeeded in boarding the Air France flight for Paris.Murugesu was jailed for a year last December. Sivarajah, a Swedish national of Sri Lankan origin, remains on the run.
by JACOB GOLDSTEIN David Kestenbaum/NPRKaushik Basu wants a word with you.Say you have a tax refund coming to you.You head down to the local government office to pick up your check. But when you get there, the clerk says you can't have the refund — unless you pay him a bribe. So you pay the bribe, and the clerk gives you your refund.Both you and the clerk have just committed a crime, according to Indian law.Kaushik Basu, chief economic adviser to India's Ministry of Finance, wants to change that.It should be legal to pay this kind of bribe — but illegal to accept it, Basu argues in a recent paper. What's more, the corrupt official should have to repay the bribe if he gets caught. Under current Indian law, Basu writes,Quoteonce a bribe is given, the bribe giver and the bribe taker become partners in crime. It is in their joint interest to keep this fact hidden from the authorities and to be fugitives from the law, because, if caught, both expect to be punished.But if the law were changed as Basu suggests,Quoteonce a bribe is given and the bribe giver collects whatever she is trying to acquire by giving the money, the interests of the bribe taker and bribe giver become completely orthogonal to each other.("Orthogonal" is a jargony way of saying "opposed.") In other words, the interests of the bribe taker and the bribe giver are no longer aligned.So let's go back to the scenario where you're owed a tax refund and the clerk demands a bribe.In Basu's world, you pay the bribe and get your refund. Then you go to the authorities and report the clerk who collected the bribe. If the clerk is convicted of taking the bribe, he has to pay you back, and faces additional penalties. You get your money back, and you face no charges.Of course, the clerk knows that you have this incentive to report him. So, Basu argues, he'll be less likely to demand the bribe in the first place. These kinds of bribes, which Basu says are currently "rampant" in India, will become much less common. (For thousands of examples, see ipaidabribe.com.)There are a bunch of caveats.This whole thing would only work if there were a reasonably effective judicial system that could hold corrupt officials accountable.Even if that were the case, such bribes wouldn't disappear altogether. Some people who pay bribes to government officials all the time might still keep mum, to maintain their good relationships with the officials, Basu says.What's more, the new law would create a new problem: people would have an incentive falsely accuse government officials of taking bribes. (Basu suggests beefing up the penalties for making such false accusations.)Finally, Basu's suggestion applies only to one type of bribe: When someone has to pay a bribe to receive something they are legally entitled to receive. Basu makes it clear that it should still be illegal to pay other types of bribes. So, for example, it would still be illegal for a big company to pay a bribe to win a government contract.
once a bribe is given, the bribe giver and the bribe taker become partners in crime. It is in their joint interest to keep this fact hidden from the authorities and to be fugitives from the law, because, if caught, both expect to be punished.
once a bribe is given and the bribe giver collects whatever she is trying to acquire by giving the money, the interests of the bribe taker and bribe giver become completely orthogonal to each other.
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