Jail for ex-SMU Academy associate director who accepted $472k in bribes

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Jail for ex-SMU Academy associate director who accepted $472k in bribes
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Christopher Tan Toh Nghee pleaded guilty to his offences on July 1.

Christopher Tan Toh Nghee, whose employment with SMU has ceased, allegedly accepted illegal funds from three men to advance their business interests with the university.

At the time of the offences, Cher was the sole shareholder and director of marketing services firm CJ Synergy . Long was the managing director of a similar company called Assetualize . His job scope included overseeing revenue, sales and programme management for Sobi. The sub-department also engaged partners to assist in marketing its courses.

The DPP added: “ wanted a cut of the commissions AST received from SMU Academy. understood that he had to give Tan a portion of AST’s earnings in order to advance the business interests of AST with SMU Academy.”Separately, in December 2018, Tan suggested that Cher help him at SMU to develop a new course called Advanced Certificate in Entrepreneurship. Tan added that Cher could work for SMU Academy as a marketing partner under a commission-based structure.

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