By Elena Chong
A 1993 SOUTH-EAST Asia Games taekwondo gold medallist was fined a total of $29,000 on Friday for corruption and vice-related offences.
Wong Jing Ching's wife, Shirinbekova Yelena, 23, an Uzbekistan national, was also fined $8,000 for living on the immoral earnings of a prostitute, and helping him to manage a contact point for prostitutes in 2010.
Wong, alias Patrick Champion Wong, 40, was 22 when he won the flyweight category of the taekwondo competition at Yishun Sports Hall. He admitted to eight charges with 17 others taken into consideration during his sentencing. Three of them were for living on the immoral earnings of a Uzbekistan prostitute, receiving the 21-year-old prostitute at the airport, and managing a place of assignation at Landmark Village Hotel between April 29 and June 2 2010.
He bribed security supervisor Sazali Kassim, 31, $1,200 on each of four occasions between January and May 2010, in exchange for not reporting suspected vice-related activities in the hotel to the management. Wong also abetted Sazali to give a $600 bribe to the latter's colleague, Mr Muhammad Farhan Osman, 23, in April then, for the same purpose.
The offences were uncovered on June 1 2010, when Wong asked plainclothes police officers near Orchard Towers if they were interested in sexual services provided by 'Russian prostitutes'. He ferried them in his taxi to the Victoria Street hotel and led them to a room to view the five Uzbekistan prostitutes.
Shortly after, a team of police officers raided the room and detained Wong and the women. The couple started to arrange for Shirinbekova's friends to carry out prostitution in Singapore and received commissions from them for every customer they served.
entrepeneur mah..............aiyoh.................