CPIB Threatened, Induced and Oppressed Prof Tey

[gingerlyn]

CPIB Threatened, Induced and Oppressed Prof Tey Tsun Hang

Ex-law prof in Malaysia as hearing proceeds

http://www.straitstimes.com/breakin...x-law-prof-malaysia-hearing-proceeds-20131017

From more than 200 instances of threats, inducements, promises and oppression alleged by disgraced law professor Tey Tsun Hang that he had endured, fewer than 10 were accepted by High Court Justice Woo Bih Li at Mr Tey's appeal yesterday.The hearing proceeded without the man at the centre of it, who was apparently in Malaysia with his parents.

Mr Tey, 42, got out of jail on Oct 5, after serving a five-month sentence he received in June for corruptly obtaining gifts and sex from former student Darinne Ko.

During his trial, he had argued against the admissibility of six statements he had given to officers from the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau, claiming they had been made under duress.

What are those threats, Inducements and Oppression?

just saw this webpage and interesting
http://www.trialoftsunhang.blogspot.sg/

 

[gingerlyn]

Note 01: Sex-for-grades, where are the grades?


[ After the first transche of the trial, many questions remain. This series of notes will explore each of them in order. ]



It is widely reported as the sex-for-grades case. The media even reported it all the time that Tey obtained sex and gave good grades as a return, from not just Darinne Ko, but also other students. They include two assistant registrars of High Court. All are his former students. Yet, only on Day 2 of the trial Tey made application to have the grades. From the number of items mentioned in court, Tey asked for detailed information about the grades of 5 students and detailed marks and results. Only 6 or 7 items were ordered by court to be given to Tey.


There are a lot of questions left:

1.Why was Tey not given the grades and results earlier? It is sex-for-grades. If the results and grades show they were given as a favour, is it not easy to convict him with the grades and results? The grades and results certainly, once given to court, will make it easy to convict Tey in this sex-for-grades case.
2.Why did AGC object to every item that Tey asked for? If it is sex-for-contracts, like the case of Ng Boon Gay, the contracts were brought up. Since this is a sex-for-grades case, why did AGC say the grades are not relevant?
3.The court also stopped lawyers of NUS from explaining to the court about the grades. No reason was given.
4.Everytime the court did not allow Tey to have the 30+ items on grades and results, the judge also did not explain. The judge did not show any interest to convince the public how the trial is being conducted at all.


Posted 15th February by Trial Tsun Hang

 

[gingerlyn]

Note 02: Media briefing by AGC

It is a most strange thing to happen in court - Attorney General's Chamber sent a lady, dressed in black, who sat at the back row of the prosecutors. She would brief the media at noon, before the lunch break and end of trial at about 6pm. This was reported by one of the evening Chinese tabloids in Singapore, at the end of the first part of the trial, to be an AGC officer.



Questions:

1.How come AGC do such a communication offensive?
2. Is this proper? It looks like AGC wants the media to report in a certain way about the trial. It appears to be coaching the media, in the first-world Singapore?
3.If this is the case, can the news reports about the trial be trusted? It is more likely to be one-sided - the reports.


Posted 16th February by Trial Tsun Hang

 

[gingerlyn]

Note 03: Where are the other students allegedly involved?

Darinne Koh, the prosecution witness said there are 4 other students who had sexual relation with Tey. CPIB officer Png also said this information came from Darinne Koh. At the trial and in the news reports, it was said these 4 students include two assistant registrars of the High Court. All are Tey's former students. There was so much reporting that Tey had used grades to obtain sex from all these students.
1.How come there are no charges about these students?
2.13 witnesses had been called by AGC. There was only 1 student - Darinne Koh. How come the other students are not called by AGC? Would it not be easier to convict Tey by bringing all the other students as well?
3.Did the other students also get called in by CPIB Teng?


Posted 17th February by Trial Tsun Hang

 

[gingerlyn]

Note 04: Hospitalised at Alexandra Hospital

It is widely reported that Tey's condition was not serious. CPIB officers even mocked about his condition. It was reported that he tried to spit some saliva. But the affidavits below said Acute Stress Disorder and Altered Mental Disorder. See"extreme, disturbing or unexpected fear, stress or pain, and that involves or threatens serious injury, perceived serious injury or death to themselves or someone else" in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_stress_reaction.

1.CPIB officers all denied making any threats. Yet, Tey was hospitalised by the evening of the day he was arrested. He was then released on 5 April and two confessions were taken from him. If they were no threats, how and why did Tey have to be sent by ambulance by CPIB to Alexandra Hospital?
2.If Tey's condition was not so serious, then why hospitalised him for 3 days?
3.Tey talked about the threats against him and his family - but all are denied by CPIB officers. If his condition was good, why did he have to be subjected to psychoactive drugs?


Posted 18th February by Trial Tsun Hang

 

[gingerlyn]

Note 05: NUS let the students graduate, after all

Tey continues to be paid by NUS and Darinne Koh graduated in 2012. It was reported that Tey was suspended. But it was also said by NUS officer that he continues to receive full pay. The NUS officer did not disclose Tey's pay. But his salary was reported by the media to be at least $15,000 a month.
1.Who gave the salary to the media, since it was not disclosed by NUS officer in court? Was it given out by the AGC communication manager? If so, is this ethical? Has Tey's salary anything to do with the trial?
2.Why did NUS continue to pay Tey his full salary? Had NUS done its internal investigation? If so, why did NUS continue to pay Tey his full salary?
3.Did NUS come to any conclusion about whether Tey had given good grades for sex and gifts from students?
4.Why did NUS allow Darinne Koh and the other students to graduate? Why did NUS not investigate and see if they received any good grades due to sex and gifts given? If there was, should the degrees not be revoked?
5.Could it be no grade was ever given by Tey as a gift?


Posted 18th February by Trial Tsun Hang

 

[gingerlyn]

Note 07: Intention to arrest Tey's wife

Tey asked CPIB officers a lot of questions about CPIB wanting to arrest his wife. All officers denied knowing the phrase "CIQ". Tey said it was told to him that means his wife would be arrested at Changi if she returns to Singapore. On the last day of the trial, the Chinese evening tabloid reported that the judge asked CPIB Teng, and CPIB Teng told the judge, "Yes, CPIB wanted to arrest Tey's wife in early April 2012."
1.With this confirmed by CPIB Teng, should not be earlier CPIB officers who said they did not know about the intention to arrest of Tey's wife be charged for telling lies in court?
2.Why the need to arrest Tey's wife?
3.Why the threats? The case is sex-for-grades, what can the wife help the CPIB and AGC in prosecuting her own husband?
4.Are such threats and tactics common tricks by CPIB?


Posted 18th February by Trial Tsun Hang

 

[gingerlyn]

Note 08: Handcuffed a patient to hospital bed

It was a funny situation - CPIB officers told different stories why Tey was handcuffed to hospital bed at Alexandra Hospital. One CPIB officer Khoo even told the court because the nurses asked him to handcuff Tey to hospital bed. Another officer said he did not know. Another said it was mentioned by a senior officer to handcuff. CPIB Teng also said he did not know.
1.Is this common? Hospitalised after call up and handcuffed to the hospital bed at A&E?
2.What kind of treatment is that, by CPIB? Remember, Tey was interrogated until he collapsed in CPIB office, and such was the treatment to Tey in hospital?


Posted 18th February by Trial Tsun Hang

 

[gingerlyn]

Note 09: Chequebooks

Tey said he paid Darinne Koh. The chequebooks were given to the judge. In the trial, Darinne Koh denied she received any payments from Tey. Tey explained there are continuous entries in the chequebooks, with Darinne Koh's name written and the dates. Tey then applied to the court to examine his chequebooks - handwriting comparison and forensic ink-dating tests by HSA (Health Sciences Authority). AGC objected to this. The judge disallowed the requests. But the judge did not explain why. (1) Why not just send them in for handwriting comparison and forensic ink-dating tests? If Tey concocted them, it would make conviction easy and clean. (2) Why did the judge not explain why the tests are not necessary when the test results would prove whether there was such payment? (3) CPIB Teng said he was given the two chequebooks, and made a photocopy. But Tey said CPIB Teng did not follow up. Why not? If gifts are the issue, why did not CPIB Teng follow up with such evidence?


Posted 20th March by Trial Tsun Hang

 

[gingerlyn]

Note 10: Taxi receipts and CPIB Teng's diary entries

Another funny thing with CPIB. When CPIB Teng was questioned, he was shown taxi receipts by Tey, with the date and time that he took taxi outside CPIB. CPIB Teng's diary entries immediately were shown to be fictitious. CPIB Teng even explained that Tey could have taken taxi from another place. (1) Why produce such fictitious CPIB diary entries? (2) Should CPIB Teng be prosecuted for making these fictitious entries? (3) If the explanation is that Tey produced fictitious taxi receipts, why not charge Tey for these as well? This is interesting because it also came out that Tey said he was detained for one hour or more after every confession, by CPIB Teng. (4) CPIB Teng obviously has a habit of talking in this manner and not record it in his diary. Is this proper?


Posted 20th March by Trial Tsun Hang

 

[gingerlyn]

Note 11: Agreement to fix Tey

It came out quite early in trial that Darinne Koh was brought into CPIB Teng's office and worked out an agreement to fix Tey. By then, Darinne had been arrested and kept at CPIB for 12 hours. She was arrested at her home early morning. She then had a bargain with CPIB Teng about the content of her statement. CPIB Teng wanted her to make out all the elements of the crimes against Tey. They bargained, and finally Darinne agreed on 'undue prejudice'. Then she was brought out for a statement to be keyed in by CPIB Png. It was only after she signed the statement that she had her passport and her father came to bring her home. There are a lot of questions.
1.Why the need to bring Darinne into CPIB Teng's office?
2.Why such bargaining to fix all the elements of crimes against Tey?
3.Why no statement from Darinne before she was brought into CPIB Teng's office. After that bargaining, the statement was keyed in by CPIB Png?
4.Why was she only given her passport and allowed to leave CPIB with her father at 3 am next day?
5.Is this common? Getting a person to fix another person - then charge him?
6.Is this allowed by the court? What kind of justice is that?


Posted 20th March by Trial Tsun Hang

 

[gingerlyn]

Note 12: Threats in Hokkien, Chinese and English

Tey asked a number of CPIB officers about the threats he received from them in Hokkien, Chinese and English. All CPIB officers denied them. All this is very disturbing. A lot of questions remain.
1.Why the need to threaten, if the case is sex-for-grades? Just prove the sex and grades, and the gifts and grades. If it is a strong case or a clear case, why was there a need to threaten?
2.Is this the way things are run at CPIB?
3.Are these threats the reason why Tey was then hospitalized at Alexandra Hospital?
4.The media in Singapore then portrayed that Tey's condition was not serious at all. Yet, why was there a need to send him by ambulance to the hospital?
5.Even after all these threats, hospitalization, will the confessions be admitted by the judge?
6.What kind of justice is this? Threaten a person into confession, and getting another person to fix him with all the elements of the crimes, then prosecute him with the crimes and bring the witness to the court to say there is corruption?


Posted 20th March by Trial Tsun Hang

 

[gingerlyn]

Note 13: Letter to Attorney General

There is a part which is not clear. Tey asked CPIB officers about a letter he wrote to AG in July 2012. After the letter was written, Tey said that CPIB officers then brought a doctor and a nurse for questioning. The judge did not allow Tey to ask the questions. There are a lot of questions.
1.What did the letter say?
2.Why did the judge not allow the questions by Tey? Why did the judge not give any reason why Tey was not allowed to ask the questions?
3.If after a letter was sent to the AG, CPIB then brought the doctor and nurse for questioning, it may show that AG simply gave the letter to CPIB, and CPIB then brought Tey's witnesses in. If that is the case, what is the purpose of CPIB doing so? To threaten the witnesses?
4.Can AG simply pass the letter to CPIB in this manner? Tey was also charged in July 2012.


Posted 21st March by Trial Tsun Hang

 

[gingerlyn]

Note 14: Opening statement not allowed

It was heard during the first day of the trial that Tey wanted to make a reply to the opening statement by the prosecutor. The judge disallowed him, and asked the first witness to immediately speak. Tey told the court in the other high profile case, the lawyer was allowed to make an opening statement. The judge ignored him. The first witness then started to speak. This is confirmed in the third high-profile case. Lawyers in this third case were allowed to speak in the opening. See: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1255160/1/.html

Questions:

1.Why denied Tey to do so, when the lawyers in the other two high-profile cases were allowed to do so?
2.Why not state the reason when the judge denied Tey the opportunity to respond to the prosecutor in the opening statement?
3.Worse still, the media and press highlighted the supposed antics that Tey carried out in court. Such manner of reporting deliberately runs down Tey's character.


Posted 21st March by Trial Tsun Hang

 

[gingerlyn]

Note 15: Next segment of trial

The judge already ruled defence would be called even before the case of the prosecution closes. The next segment of trial is the entire month of April 2013, according to news reports, for a trial-within-a-trial (to admit Tey's confessions taken after he was hospitalised at Alexandra Hospital) and the defence.


Question: But the case for the prosecution had not finished yet. How come the judge assumed Tey's confessions will be admitted and his defence will be called, when the case of prosecution is not done?


Posted 21st March by Trial Tsun Hang

 

[gingerlyn]

Note 16: Judge censored defence some witnesses

It is reported: "Law professor Tey Tsun Hang has been allowed to call 16 witnesses for his defence when the sex-for-grades corruption trial resumes next month. Tey, who is conducting his own defence, had initially drawn up a list of 22 people."; "Tey arrived at the Subordinate Courts yesterday for a closed-door hearing on the witness list. Of the 16 approved, five are expected to testify in the trial within a trial. They include Alexandra Hospital doctors and NUS law dean Simon Chesterman.": http://www.straitstimes.com/breakin...-trial-tey-call-16-witnesses-defence-20130305


Questions:

1.Why did the judge decide to take it upon himself to censor the defence witnesses;
2.During the first part of trial in January 2013, the prosecution was allowed to change its witnesses all the time; there was no mention in the January trial that the Prosecution had to seek the judge's approval to call its witnesses;
3.Why was the defence not allowed to do the same, and has to have its witnesses pre-censored?
4.Why conduct this in-chambers, and not in the court?
5.Now, we do not even know what the 6 other witnesses were not allowed - who are these 6 witnesses not allowed to come to court?
6.Did the Prosecution object to the 6 witnesses, and the judge agreed to censor them? If so, why?
7.Why no transparency?


Posted 21st March by Trial Tsun Hang

 

[gingerlyn]

Sex for grades case: Defence says CPIB badgered Tey to confess

CPIB wanted to arrest Prof Tey Tsun Hang wife. Pls let me ask sam brothers and sisters if law enforcers also arrested Tang Liang Hong wife when uncle Tang run to Australia?
http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/sex-grades-case-defence-says-cpib-badgered-tey-confess

SINGAPORE — Reading out cards Ms Darinne Ko had sent to former law don Tey Tsun Hang — such as one thanking him for “the most wonderful summer” — defence lawyer Peter Low sought to show yesterday that theirs was not a one-sided relationship.

Officers from the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau had also made threats, inducements and/or promises when they were recording statements from his client, Mr Low argued, during Tey’s appeal against his graft rap.



Tey, 42, was found guilty in May of six counts of corruptly obtaining gifts and sex from Ms Ko in exchange for awarding her good grades. Apart from gifts such as an iPod and a Mont Blanc pen, Tey also had sex with her on two occasions.

He launched the appeal despite having served his five-month jail sentence — part of which was on home detention. He was granted early release this month for good behaviour.

Yesterday’s hearing started with the unexpected no-show by Tey. Mr Low told the court that he only learnt five minutes before the proceedings started that Tey was in Kuala Lumpur with his parents and would not show up. Justice Woo Bih Li allowed the hearing to proceed, although the Criminal Procedure Code allows judges to throw out cases where appellants were absent.

When the judge pressed Mr Low to give details of when Tey was pressured when his statements were recorded, the lawyer cited purported comments by graft officers that his client had taken as threats to arrest his wife — who was not in Singapore in early April last year — when she returned to the country.

One of them, Mr Bay Chun How, also badgered Tey to confess that he had corruptly received gifts and sex from his students, said Mr Low.

The hearing continues today.

 

[koKSia]

registered account one month and so many points! :kma:

 

[OldFart]

Waaaa very fierce man, this morning exactly at 9am SBF kenna 17 summons (above) from same lawyer liao, fierce sial

 

[cheekenpie]

Ignore this TS... obviously it is Prof Cassanova Tey himself