Singapore property tycoon linked to jailed minister fined S$30,000
Sill was sentenced to 30,000 s $ ($ 23,000) by a Singapore Court on Friday as part of a turning point of the former Minister of Transportation S. Iswaran, which led to the imprisonment of former Minister of Transportation S. Iswaran last year.
The founder of the 79 -year -old Hotel Properties LTD (HPPPS.SI) was accused of giving high -valuable gifts, including tickets to Grand Prix’s routing committee, Grand Prix’s routing committee, the British Premier League football matches and West End Musalals.
Last week, Ong was found guilty of accusing the prevention of justice after organizing Bill Iswaran for a flight ticket for a flight ticket.
A second accusation was also taken into consideration by the court to eliminate a crime.
The $ 30,000 was a maximum fine that the court could impose. Ong, who was fined in a three -month prison, resigned as the HPL’s General Manager in April.
The case has widespread Singapore, a wealthy financial center, a wealthy financial center that pays more than $ 1 million salary, which he said was necessary to deterd the graft to ministers and is proud of his reputation in clean governance.
At the hearing of the last week, prosecution and defense acknowledged that the mercy of judiciary could be given because it was unhealthy by advanced cancer, which meant that the court could impose softly than normal punishment.
In a written decision, the regional judge Lee Lit Cheng wrote: “The critical question is not whether a criminal will take a lower health service standard in prison, but whether the prison sentence creates increasing risks for the life of the criminal.
He continued: “I am glad that the conditions in this case are extraordinary and that they meet the high threshold to give the mercy of judicial.”
Iswaran was sentenced to 12 months in prison last October, and a former cabinet member was imprisoned for the first time in Singapore. He had a total of 35 charges that were about corruption, but were changed on charges of receiving a gift of $ 384,340 from Ong while he was a public official.
In February, Iswaran was given a house arrest for the rest of his sentence.
($ 1 = 1.2831 Singapore Dollar) (Xinghui is reported by Kok; by John Mair and Kate Mayberry)
