Flour salesman fined $40,000 for bribing buyer
Published on Nov 15, 2011
Ang Kim Lian, a senior sales executive with flour supplier Seng Hong, was fined $40,000 on Tuesday for bribing a baker to buy weevil-infested flour for the Thomson Cake & Confectionary shop. -- ST PHOTO: AZIZ HUSSIN
By Khushwant Singh
A senior sales executive with flour supplier Seng Hong was fined $40,000 on Tuesday for bribing a baker to buy weevil-infested flour for the Thomson Cake & Confectionery shop.
Ang Kim Lian, 48, gave baker Koh Soon Chye, 41 a $2 bribe for every 2.5kg sack ordered and the total came to more than $7,000.
Koh had been earlier fined the same amount. He was ordered to pay a penalty of $7,020, which is the exact amount of bribes he received.
The court heard that Seng Hong imported flour from Sri Lanka in 2008 which were later found to be contaminated with weevils.
Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.
Ang Kim Lian, a senior sales executive with flour supplier Seng Hong, was fined $40,000 on Tuesday for bribing a baker to buy weevil-infested flour for the Thomson Cake & Confectionary shop. -- ST PHOTO: AZIZ HUSSIN
By Khushwant Singh
A senior sales executive with flour supplier Seng Hong was fined $40,000 on Tuesday for bribing a baker to buy weevil-infested flour for the Thomson Cake & Confectionery shop.
Ang Kim Lian, 48, gave baker Koh Soon Chye, 41 a $2 bribe for every 2.5kg sack ordered and the total came to more than $7,000.
Koh had been earlier fined the same amount. He was ordered to pay a penalty of $7,020, which is the exact amount of bribes he received.
The court heard that Seng Hong imported flour from Sri Lanka in 2008 which were later found to be contaminated with weevils.
Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.