Singapore civil servant facing 455 fraud charges
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Singapore civil servant facing 455 fraud charges
AFP News – 4 hours agoA Singaporean civil servant appeared in court Thursday on 455 charges of cheating the government totalling more than Sg$600,000 ($460,000), authorities and a media report said.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said in a statement that clerical officer Liew Chee Meng was alleged to have forged documents to approve the purchase of gift vouchers for his personal benefit between 2007 and early this year.
Subsequent investigations led to the seizure of almost Sg$475,000 worth of goods from the accused, the MHA said.
"A civilian clerical officer from the Ministry of Home Affairs... was charged in court today for forgery, cheating, criminal breach of trust and conversion of proceeds of crime," it said.
"The offences relate to acts allegedly committed in the course of his employment with the ministry. The total amount involved is Sg$617,087."
Liew, 35, is alleged to have committed 455 offences, according to the Straits Times website.
The MHA said Liew's actions were uncovered in January after an internal audit following a corruption case involving a senior civil servant with a penchant for Italian supercars.
In that case Koh Seah Wee, formerly a deputy director of information technology at the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) was sentenced last month to 22 years in jail for cheating the government of more than Sg$12 million.
A former colleague of his was sentenced to 15 years.
Large-scale graft cases are rare in Singapore, a thriving financial centre and business hub which enjoys a reputation for being the least corrupt country in Asia.
It pays its civil servants some of the highest government salaries in the world as a deterrent to corruption.
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cheaper is better or same?
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whoah. i should try being a civil servant one day
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actually alot of the corruption cases were covered up... how do i know??? because some of my friends work inside government sectors. =)
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Originally posted by DailyFreeGames.com:
actually alot of the corruption cases were covered up... how do i know??? because some of my friends work inside government sectors. =)he
than you go report the cases lor.
Maybe the police will give you a good citizen award and your face will appear in the front page of newspaper
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Originally posted by single_alone:
than you go report the cases lor.
Maybe the police will give you a good citizen award and your face will appear in the front page of newspaper
i dun want to shock you but the whistleblower did email to the ministers etc... you don't read anything about these cases because they weren't on the news. so i have to believe they were covered up. the issues mentioned are fraud cases where the civil servant siphoned the money. -
Originally posted by DailyFreeGames.com:
i dun want to shock you but the whistleblower did email to the ministers etc... you don't read anything about these cases because they weren't on the news. so i have to believe they were covered up. the issues mentioned are fraud cases where the civil servant siphoned the money.than ask the whistleblower to show the email that he/she send to the ministers to the media and let them report it in the news.
If the media don't want to report it than ask him/her to show it to the opposition party members to publise in their party newsletter etc
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the whistle blower can also go to wikileaks.
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walau! The checks and balances damn koyak!
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455 charges of cheating.
Big loop hole!!!
Perhaps he may not be caught if he is more careful. Too bad.