Shanmugam lao sia liao - lao whole ka ching

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an 10, 2011
Don't try a 'WikiLeaks' here: Shanmugam

HOME Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam has warned that anyone caught leaking any official government documents in Singapore, will be 'dealt with firmly.'

Singapore, among many other countries, was affected by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks when it released thousands of US cable transcripts.

In Parliament today, MP for Hong Kah GRC Zaqy Mohamad asked if Singapore plans to implement new measures to prevent classified information from falling into the wrong hands.

Mr Shanmugam replied that under the Officail Secrets Act, Singapore has clear policies and measures to prevent security breaches which covers even the layman.

'We believe that everyone involved in a leak of information, whether in Government or outside, should be dealt with firmly. We do not intend to encourage cat and mouse games,' Mr Shanmugam said.

'Public interest in free flow of information cannot justify the abuse of confidential Government information,' he added.

 

[commoner]

tell that to the judge who fined Tharman.... $1,500 only,,, members have their privileges

Legal charge and conviction
While serving as economics director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore in 1993, Tharman was charged under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) in a case involving the release of Singapore's 1992 second-quarter flash projections to a research director, Mr Raymond Foo, and economist Manu Bhaskaran, of Crosby Securities, and to journalists Kenneth James and Patrick Daniel of the Business Times.[4]

The OSA case, which stretched over more than a year, was reported extensively in the Singapore press. Tharman contested and was eventually acquitted of the charge of communicating the GDP growth flash projections. Senior District Judge Richard Magnus then introduced a lesser charge of negligence, because the prosecution's case was that the figures were seen on a document that he had with him at a meeting with the private economists which he had attended with one of his colleagues. Tharman contested this lesser charge too, and took to the witness stand for a few days.

The court nevertheless convicted him together with all the others in the case, including the editor of Business Times newspaper which published the figures. Tharman was fined S$1,500, and the others S$2,000. As there was no finding that he knowingly communicated any classified information, the case did not pose any hurdle to his subsequent appointment as the Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore

 

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tell that to the judge who fined Tharman.... $1,500 only,,, members have their privileges

Legal charge and conviction
While serving as economics director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore in 1993, Tharman was charged under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) in a case involving the release of Singapore's 1992 second-quarter flash projections to a research director, Mr Raymond Foo, and economist Manu Bhaskaran, of Crosby Securities, and to journalists Kenneth James and Patrick Daniel of the Business Times.[4]

The OSA case, which stretched over more than a year, was reported extensively in the Singapore press. Tharman contested and was eventually acquitted of the charge of communicating the GDP growth flash projections. Senior District Judge Richard Magnus then introduced a lesser charge of negligence, because the prosecution's case was that the figures were seen on a document that he had with him at a meeting with the private economists which he had attended with one of his colleagues. Tharman contested this lesser charge too, and took to the witness stand for a few days.

The court nevertheless convicted him together with all the others in the case, including the editor of Business Times newspaper which published the figures. Tharman was fined S$1,500, and the others S$2,000. As there was no finding that he knowingly communicated any classified information, the case did not pose any hurdle to his subsequent appointment as the Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore

indians getting very strong in PAP le

 

[Tristan]

He is scared becase if there is a wikileaks here, it will be the end of him, the ruling party and the whole farking fat pay package that comes along with it.

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

 

[exgoon]

By the way, what has happened to the thread about him and his hanky panky ways ??

I was looking for the thread recently but could not find it.

Seems to have disappeared from Sammyboy.

Anybody here knows what happened to that thread ??

 

[sinren67]

So Shamemugan feels nothing wrong when 60% of the new jobs went to foreigners can change to locals within few hours in ST few years ago

 

[123456787654321]

Wow, talk about striking when the iron's hot! Every time something drastic happens elsewhere, management always takes the opportunity to make life more difficult for their own people.