A senior employee with the Housing Board and the director of a construction company were charged with corruption on Thursday. Tan Siam Chua, 60, who was a senior estate manager with HDB at the time of the alleged offences, was handed one charge of abetting corrupt...
Tan had allegedly instigated Liong to do so, said the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau in a press statement.Tan, who has not engaged a lawyer, said: “Those things that I have done in accordance with HDB’s practice.”
The judge stopped him from elaborating further, and arranged for him to attend a pre-trial conference on Oct 26. On Thursday, Liong said, through his lawyer Tang Shangwei of WongPartnership, that he intended to contest the charge. Mr Tang said Liong needs to travel to China to visit suppliers. The judge told the lawyer to put in an application for Liong to leave Singapore.Both Tan and Liong are now out on $10,000 bail each.The HDB spokesman said: “HDB expects all officers to maintain high standards of integrity and incorruptibility, and their actions must not bring HDB into disrepute.
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