2nd ICA officer jailed

[MarrickG]

SENIOR immigration officer Dong Ching Jit, 56, was jailed 18 months on Thursday for accepting bribes to extend the social visit passes of foreign nationals.

He must also pay a penalty of $10,000, which was the amount the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officer received in two of the four charges he was convicted of last Friday. The amounts in the other charges were not specified.

He is the second senior ICA officer to be punished for corruption by a district court this week.

On Wednesday, checkpoint inspector Chung Cheong Weng, 60, was jailed eight months for accepting free sexual favours from a Chinese national and for asking her to remove evidence.

The pair join about 20 other public officers convicted of corruption every year.

Dong is appealing against his conviction and sentence. He has also claimed trial to eight other similar charges that allege he received about $70,000 in bribes.

 

[makapaaa]

The pair join about 20 other public officers convicted of corruption every year.

=> So there're more, but the Familee would such limit the wayang to no more than 20 per year to hide the truth? Of course, the Familee itself is biggest of them all!

 

[Watchman]

=> So there're more, but the Familee would such limit the wayang to no more than 20 per year to hide the truth? Of course, the Familee itself is biggest of them all!

I can't see please shout !

 

[Tiu Kwang Yew]

no wonder so many PRCs walk HDB estates, so it is the govt officials behind the influx.

ah loong sleeping ?

 

[Sinkieloser]

This time is not sex but money only. How come Sinkieland with its clean image cannot hold on clean anymore. Sinkie is actually polluted, so if they can unsinkified, then such problems will never exist in the first place.

To have a clean image, you got to clean yourself first.

 

[Cerebral]

All of the ICA officers are near retirement one. Maybe don't want to pay pension is it :p

 

[SIFU]

This time is not sex but money only. How come Sinkieland with its clean image cannot hold on clean anymore. Sinkie is actually polluted, so if they can unsinkified, then such problems will never exist in the first place.

To have a clean image, you got to clean yourself first.

CB kia tonychat,

kena banned now appear as 'sinkieloser'


:oIo::oIo:

 

[halsey02]

All of the ICA officers are near retirement one. Maybe don't want to pay pension is it :p

They just cannot resists the 'communists bandits'...ha ha ha ha

 

[streetsmart73]

hi there


1. now, who was the person who said that paying high salary deters corruption one?
2. slapping "itself" on the face man!
3. power corrupts!
4. wake up and smell the coffee.

 

[Sinkieloser]

hi there


1. now, who was the person who said that paying high salary deters corruption one?
2. slapping "itself" on the face man!
3. power corrupts!
4. wake up and smell the coffee.

And who was the whole bunch who vote him in one?

 

[Musashi Miyamoto]

May 24, 2011

ICA officer cleared of last 8 bribery charges

By Elena Chong

District Judge Low Wee Ping granted Mr Dong Ching Jit (above) a discharge amounting to an acquittal on the charges. The 58-year-old deputy superintendent of ICA who has been suspended for the last four years said outside the courtroom after the acquittal that he was very happy. -- ST PHOTO: AZIZ HUSSIN

A SENIOR Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officer walked out of court a free man on Tuesday after the prosecution withdrew his remaining eight corruption charges involving $70,000.

District Judge Low Wee Ping granted Mr Dong Ching Jit a discharge amounting to an acquittal on the charges. The 58-year-old deputy superintendent of ICA who has been suspended for the last four years said outside the courtroom after the acquittal that he was very happy.

'At last justice has been done. I suffered for so long for nothing,'' he added. .

Mr Dong, who had faced 12 charges, was initially convicted in November 2009 of four counts of accepting bribes of more than $10,000 from one Edmund Hoon Wai Kein, 34, to extend the social visit passes of foreign nationals in November 2009.

He was sentenced to 18 months' jail and ordered to pay a penalty of $10,000.

But he was cleared of any wrongdoing last September when the High Court allowed his appeal against conviction.

 

[Cruxx]

This time is not sex but money only. How come Sinkieland with its clean image cannot hold on clean anymore. Sinkie is actually polluted, so if they can unsinkified, then such problems will never exist in the first place.

To have a clean image, you got to clean yourself first.

Image and reality rarely coincide.

 

[BuiKia]

Does he get paid for the 4 years that he was suspended?

 

[zuoom]

and then what?

would he get his job back?

 

[Cruxx]

and then what?

would he get his job back?

That depends on how honest his mistake was.