Wong King Mooi gave SMRT’s Soh Choon Heng, who got 21 months’ jail, at least $29,500 in cash between 2017 and 2019. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE – After failing to win two contracts with SMRT, a director of a company that supplied parts began bribing an assistant buyer from the transport company to obtain confidential information.On Thursday, the 48-year-old Malaysian was sentenced to four months’ jail and fined $4,000 after she pleaded guilty to three corruption charges. Two similar charges were taken into consideration during her sentencing.sentenced to 21 months’ jail in January 2023.
The company supplied SMRT parts for its operations, such as those for its passenger service doors and train gearboxes. CEE failed to win a contract with SMRT to supply it with parts for its passenger service doors in 2015. The company tried again in 2017 but again lost the contract to its competitor. Soh Choon Heng, who had accepted bribes from the directors of three firms, was sentenced to 21 months’ jail in January 2023. PHOTO: ST FILE
Soh relayed the confidential information to Wong either via telephone calls or by sending her e-mails with attachments of the information.She withdrew cash from her personal bank account to pass Soh the money in an envelope.Former SMRT employee and two others charged in corruption cases involving over $54,000
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