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Major Graft Scandal Ministry of Law SLA, Durai & Teh Chiang Wan are tiny

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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Major Graft proved that many TT Durais are in LEEgime


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I already stated during the NKF scandals that there are many many TT Durais in the famiLEE LEEgime, and they proved again. There is S$12million graft fraud exposed now. 10X nearly the amount corrupted by Teh Chaing Wan the LEEgmie Minister of National Development who died for this scandal.

It is a shame and slap on Old Dog Thief Lee Kuan Yew's CLEAN SYSTEM.

I am glad it got exposed instead of being covered up.

If it was really a Clean System, it should be one that covering up any corruption by any officer who has obligation to expose and punish the culprits get at least the same punishment as the culprit or even more than the culprit. Meanwhile any whistle blower that exposed corruption get award. Then you call that a Clean System.


SLA hit by $12m fraud involving two senior staff
By S Ramesh | Posted: 28 September 2010 1811 hrs
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SINGAPORE : The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) has been hit by a S$12 million fraud case involving two of its senior staff.

40-year-old Koh Seah Wee, a deputy director with SLA's Technology and Infrastructure Department, faces 249 charges of cheating while a second suspect, Christopher Lim Chai Meng, a manager in the same department, is currently helping the police with investigations.

The SLA, a statutory board under the Law Ministry, uncovered the fraud in June this year.

Investigations showed that a number of irregular payments in its Technology and Infrastructure Department took place between January 2008 and March 2010, worth nearly S$12 million.

SLA posts its tenders for IT maintenance services on the government procurement website.

According to the charges against Koh, he had conspired with two others - Lim Chai Meng and Ho Yen Teck - to award the IT maintenance contracts to firms which did not deliver the services.

However, SLA paid the firms which have turned out to be fictitious. Amounts paid ranged from $2,600 to $60,000.

As deputy director of SLA's Technology and Infrastructure Department, Koh had the authority to approve payments to the firms.

Koh also faces several charges of using his ill-gotten gains to buy cars and properties.

The charges said that Koh had used the money to pay for a Lamborghini, Mercedes Benz cars, acquire property at Axis@Siglap along East Coast Terrace, and purchase various unit trusts.

The authorities have so far recovered cash and assets worth about $10 million from Koh.

Koh was charged on June 25, and he is being defended by lawyer Ravinderpal Singh. His case will be mentioned again on October 19.

Koh is now in remand as he has not been able to raise the S$1.5 million bail offered to him.

Giving details of Koh and Lim's employment with the SLA, a spokesman told Channel NewsAsia that they were deployed to SLA in March 2007 and July 2006 respectively.

Koh was posted back to the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) in March this year where he resigned on June 1.

Lim returned to IDA on 1 May 2010, and then went on no-pay leave. He has since been suspended from duty.

According to a joint statement from the SLA and the Law Ministry, SLA had finance and procurement processes in accordance with government guidelines.

However, the two SLA officers were said to have conspired with each other and the business entities involved, which enabled them to circumvent the checks and balances.

The Law Ministry set up an independent review panel following the matter in June, and SLA has since implemented the panel's recommendations to improve its tender system, such as requiring an officer from a different department to verify the request to call a quotation.

It has also reduced the financial limit for approval of financial transactions by certain levels of officers.

SLA said disciplinary investigations have commenced in respect of two officers whose oversight might have allowed the fraud to take place undetected.

These investigations are in progress, and disciplinary action will be taken, if and where found appropriate.

SLA added that it did not go public any earlier as police investigations including the tracing of assets were on-going.

Investigations against Koh are only now largely completed and another tranche of charges was tendered against Koh in court earlier Tuesday morning, and this is the first appropriate opportunity for SLA to inform the public of the case. - CNA /ls





posted by uncleyap at 12:15 AM
 

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Got.. a few croonies gather around the table at TC meeings and decide who should get the cut this time.
 

Maximilian Chua-Heng

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Surely this is just an isolated case.

Singapore is no. 1 in Asia when it comes to being largely corrupt-free.

We must nip it in the bud to preserve the proud ranking.

A further pay adjustment (on the upside) for the top civil servants should prevent such fraud cases in the future. Agree?
 

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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Major Graft proved that many TT Durais are in LEEgime


Breaking News URL

I already stated during the NKF scandals that there are many many TT Durais in the famiLEE LEEgime, and they proved again. There is S$12million graft fraud exposed now. 10X nearly the amount corrupted by Teh Chaing Wan the LEEgmie Minister of National Development who died for this scandal.

It is a shame and slap on Old Dog Thief Lee Kuan Yew's CLEAN SYSTEM.

I am glad it got exposed instead of being covered up.

If it was really a Clean System, it should be one that covering up any corruption by any officer who has obligation to expose and punish the culprits get at least the same punishment as the culprit or even more than the culprit. Meanwhile any whistle blower that exposed corruption get award. Then you call that a Clean System.


SLA hit by $12m fraud involving two senior staff
By S Ramesh | Posted: 28 September 2010 1811 hrs
phpD5uq2W.jpg


SINGAPORE : The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) has been hit by a S$12 million fraud case involving two of its senior staff.

40-year-old Koh Seah Wee, a deputy director with SLA's Technology and Infrastructure Department, faces 249 charges of cheating while a second suspect, Christopher Lim Chai Meng, a manager in the same department, is currently helping the police with investigations.

The SLA, a statutory board under the Law Ministry, uncovered the fraud in June this year.

Investigations showed that a number of irregular payments in its Technology and Infrastructure Department took place between January 2008 and March 2010, worth nearly S$12 million.

SLA posts its tenders for IT maintenance services on the government procurement website.

According to the charges against Koh, he had conspired with two others - Lim Chai Meng and Ho Yen Teck - to award the IT maintenance contracts to firms which did not deliver the services.

However, SLA paid the firms which have turned out to be fictitious. Amounts paid ranged from $2,600 to $60,000.

As deputy director of SLA's Technology and Infrastructure Department, Koh had the authority to approve payments to the firms.

Koh also faces several charges of using his ill-gotten gains to buy cars and properties.

The charges said that Koh had used the money to pay for a Lamborghini, Mercedes Benz cars, acquire property at Axis@Siglap along East Coast Terrace, and purchase various unit trusts.

The authorities have so far recovered cash and assets worth about $10 million from Koh.

Koh was charged on June 25, and he is being defended by lawyer Ravinderpal Singh. His case will be mentioned again on October 19.

Koh is now in remand as he has not been able to raise the S$1.5 million bail offered to him.

Giving details of Koh and Lim's employment with the SLA, a spokesman told Channel NewsAsia that they were deployed to SLA in March 2007 and July 2006 respectively.

Koh was posted back to the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) in March this year where he resigned on June 1.

Lim returned to IDA on 1 May 2010, and then went on no-pay leave. He has since been suspended from duty.

According to a joint statement from the SLA and the Law Ministry, SLA had finance and procurement processes in accordance with government guidelines.

However, the two SLA officers were said to have conspired with each other and the business entities involved, which enabled them to circumvent the checks and balances.

The Law Ministry set up an independent review panel following the matter in June, and SLA has since implemented the panel's recommendations to improve its tender system, such as requiring an officer from a different department to verify the request to call a quotation.

It has also reduced the financial limit for approval of financial transactions by certain levels of officers.

SLA said disciplinary investigations have commenced in respect of two officers whose oversight might have allowed the fraud to take place undetected.

These investigations are in progress, and disciplinary action will be taken, if and where found appropriate.

SLA added that it did not go public any earlier as police investigations including the tracing of assets were on-going.

Investigations against Koh are only now largely completed and another tranche of charges was tendered against Koh in court earlier Tuesday morning, and this is the first appropriate opportunity for SLA to inform the public of the case. - CNA /ls





posted by uncleyap at 12:15 AM

Uncleyap, the spelling for Teh's name should be Teh Cheang Wan, if I recall. U are absolutely right in that there are many more TT Durais in the PAP's beneficial society system. What I find surprising is how far the CPIB have fallen. In the past, if a civil servant is driving lambos and living in luxury houses, they would have been investigated long before it got to this stage. Instead, this is a case where SLA discovered it themselves, and the police is taking over the investigation. If CPIB really on the ball, they can dig up many more of these cases. But because they are seconded to the PMO, Gay Loong can veto any investigation into high ranking PAP elites, unless the transgression becomes so bad, they cannot cover up. The CPIB now is like a dog with no teeth.
 

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Recent reviews by the internal audit from attorney generals claimed that many ministries have poor internal control and poor governance. This is just a beginning of one worm showing its head. I believe there are many still at large. It may escalate into the top tiers "elite" and from there more worms will wriggle out from those managing our tax reserves.

Uncle Yap, please keep a look out for those worms and register it so that history must not forget how "clean" & "white" this govt is.
 

silverfox@

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Corrupted cases are many, pte public sectors.

Countries all over the world. Corruption from the top all the way to the police.

The question is does changing the govt, remove all these corruption practices?
 

Queen Seok Duk

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That was an unfair reading of the report.

The fact that the fraud uncovered and reported in MSM shows NOT the corruption of PAP but the exact opposite. It's because PAP is not corrupted which is why the fraud is exposed and not covered up.
 

Unrepented

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Maybe some disgruntled contractor finally wrote in to complain, then lan lan bo bian:wink:

That was an unfair reading of the report.

The fact that the fraud uncovered and reported in MSM shows NOT the corruption of PAP but the exact opposite. It's because PAP is not corrupted which is why the fraud is exposed and not covered up.
 

silverfox@

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Maybe some disgruntled contractor finally wrote in to complain, then lan lan bo bian:wink:

This kind of thing no smoke without fire. Someone must have noticed his flashy lifestyle and lodged a report against him for investigation.

1 thing was, by buying luxury sports car and property, does he really think he would never be caught?
 

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It will make it very much more difficult if there are opposing and independent factions counter checking on each other in a system. I agree that all human have fallacies, that's is why we need a good system to counteract against such fallacies.

For example, compare yourself as an external auditor of a sole proprietorship business versus auditing a partnership consisting of a few partners. Think about this.:smile:

Also, what is your definition of "changing the government"?

Corrupted cases are many, pte public sectors.

Countries all over the world. Corruption from the top all the way to the police.

The question is does changing the govt, remove all these corruption practices?
 

Unrepented

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Is it the PAPee who exposed him or the apparatus of government runned by average civil servants that exposed him? Please make this clear.

That was an unfair reading of the report.

The fact that the fraud uncovered and reported in MSM shows NOT the corruption of PAP but the exact opposite. It's because PAP is not corrupted which is why the fraud is exposed and not covered up.
 

Queen Seok Duk

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The Law Ministry set up an independent review panel following the matter in June, and SLA has since implemented the panel's recommendations to improve its tender system, such as requiring an officer from a different department to verify the request to call a quotation.

Even civil servants realize that it's necessary to have 'independent review panel' to act as checks and balances.

Why 66% of Singaporeans still cannot understand ?
 

silverfox@

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It will make it very much more difficult if there are opposing and independent factions counter checking on each other in a system. I agree that all human have fallacies, that's is why we need a good system to counteract against such fallacies.

For example, compare yourself as an external auditor of a sole proprietorship business versus auditing a partnership consisting of a few partners. Think about this.:smile:

Also, what is your definition of "changing the government"?

I look around Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and after that I tell myself, having more opposing and independent parties doesn't mean the country is cleaner.

My definition of changing the govt means removing the PAP seats and filling up with Opposition members. Will it help to make this country cleaner? I don't think so.

It's like what you said. Fallacies of Human. No system is perfect or foolproof. Loopholes are only discovered after incidents happened.
 

Queen Seok Duk

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Is it the PAPee who exposed him or the apparatus of government runned by average civil servants that exposed him? Please make this clear.

If PAP wants to cover up, this piece of news will never see the daylight.

PAP is clean, that is why they're not afraid to be embarrassed.
 

Papsmearer

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Recent reviews by the internal audit from attorney generals claimed that many ministries have poor internal control and poor governance. This is just a beginning of one worm showing its head. I believe there are many still at large. It may escalate into the top tiers "elite" and from there more worms will wriggle out from those managing our tax reserves.

Uncle Yap, please keep a look out for those worms and register it so that history must not forget how "clean" & "white" this govt is.

It will never escalate to the top tier because the CPIB is not an independent unit. It is under the PMO, and u can be sure Gay Loong will never let it investigate elites, otherwise it will tarnish the image of their clean govt.
 
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If PAP wants to cover up, this piece of news will never see the daylight.

PAP is clean, that is why they're not afraid to be embarrassed.

They have to expose this and cannot cover it up because they want to prosecute this koh guy. the amount stolen is too large, and he is not connected politically. Also he lived very obstentiously, with lambos and what not. Old Goat is very adamant on this point. Its one thing to steal millions, and than stash it overseas and live a frugal life here, but its another thing to steal milllions and flaunt it in front of every one else. Occasionally, they also need to sacrifice a scapegoat to keep the others in line.

A cover up would be Temasek and GIC's 'honest mistakes". How can 2 institutions with supposedly such high powered and smart financial advisors go contra to the market and start buying up deeply troubled financial institutions like UBS, Merrill Lynch, etc. What fees were paid to whom to get Temasek and GIC to buy these 2 loser companies? What was the thought process behind these purchases? Where were the minutes from the board meetings authorizing the purchases, and what were the business plans behind these 2 buys? How was the CEO and BOD compensated in relation to these purchases? etc.
 

Papsmearer

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Corrupted cases are many, pte public sectors.

Countries all over the world. Corruption from the top all the way to the police.

The question is does changing the govt, remove all these corruption practices?

Once again, u have missed the point. Changing the govt. does not remove corruption, its human nature, it will happen again. Changing the govt. will enable corruption to be exposed easier via a free press, indepedent CPIB, independent judiciary, etc. I am surprised u don't understand this.
 

Papsmearer

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Maybe some disgruntled contractor finally wrote in to complain, then lan lan bo bian:wink:

90% i can guarantee u what happened. Someone in his own department squealed on him. This moron probably bragging to his co-workers about his lambo, nice vacations, and fancy houses all the time, until someone tulan go to his superior and report him. How can someone making his salary (even though quite high) afford this, right? Superior than quietly did an audit and internal investigation, found merit, than call in Police to investigate fully.
 
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