SINGAPORE — Hoping to make extra cash by picking up ad-hoc passengers at the Woodlands Checkpoint, Alagendra Ranjan ended up trying to bribe an Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officer so that he can stay longer at a bus bay on a busy Friday night.
When that failed, the bus driver called the officer a"pig" in Malay before driving off from the location.
His passengers later alighted from the bus to go through immigration checks while Alagendra drove to the counter for departing buses and cleared his own immigration check at 8.18pm.This prompted Sergeant Khairul Anwar Khairudin, an ICA officer, to approach and direct Alagendra to move his bus to the area for private buses that was located further ahead at a concourse where his 17 passengers could board.
Alagendra explained that he wanted to earn extra money by picking up more passengers but was told firmly by Sergeant Khairul to leave.By doing this, he offered a bribe to Sergeant Khairul in exchange for letting his bus remain at the private bus bay, DPP Joseph said.
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