Ex-business director of STE subsidiary cleared of one and convicted of another briber

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Ex-business director of STE subsidiary cleared of one and convicted of another bribery charge

Published on Jul 24, 2014 1:07 PM

Mark Edward Tjong, 48, the former business director of a subsidiary of ST Electronics, leaves the court on July 24, 2014. -- ST PHOTO: NEO XIAOBIN

By Elena Chong

SINGAPORE - A former business director of an ST Electronics subsidiary was cleared of one corruption charge and convicted of another on Thursday.

Mark Edward Tjong, an American citizen and a Singapore permanent resident, was an employee of ST Electronics (Info-Software Systems), a subsidiary of the electronics arm of mainboard-listed Singapore Technologies Engineering at the time.

The 48-year-old, who is now unemployed, was acquitted of corruptly obtaining, through his then girlfriend and now wife Ho Su-Ling, 38, $30,000 from Bangladesh national Mujibur Rahman, 65, as a reward for appointing him as STE's agent to help the software systems implementor clinch a contract with the Bangladesh Police Department.

The alleged offence took place on Aug 23, 2006.

 

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Ex-business director of ST Electronics unit gets 8 weeks' jail for corruption

Published on Aug 5, 2014 12:18 PM

Mark Edward Tjong, a former business director of an ST Electronics subsidiary, was sentenced to eight weeks' jail for corruption on Tuesday. -- ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG

By Elena Chong

SINGAPORE - A former business director of an ST Electronics subsidiary was sentenced to eight weeks' jail for corruption on Tuesday.

Mark Edward Tjong was convicted of corruptly getting $57,387 from Mr Mujibur Rahman as a reward to appoint the 65-year-old Bangladesh national as an agent of ST Electronics (Info-Software Systems) (STE) to help the latter with a project with the Bangladesh Police Department in August 2006.

Tjong, 48, was then employed by STE, an arm of Singapore Technologies Engineering, which is listed on the Singapore Exchange.

The American citizen and Singapore Permanent Resident was also ordered to pay a penalty of $57,387. But his lawyers Shashi Nathan and Tania Chin successfully asked that the sum be stayed pending Tjong's appeal against conviction and sentence.