Flour salesman fined $40,000 for bribing buyer

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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.
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[General Veers]

Man fined for bribing baker to buy weevil-filled flour

Published on Feb 29, 2012
By Khushwant Singh

The former general manager of flour supplier Seng Hong was on Wednesday, fined $53,000 for corruption.

Toh Lee Tao, 45, pleaded guilty to conspiring with ex-salesman Ang Kim Lian, 41, and bribing an employee of Thomson Cake & Confectionery shop to buy flour that was infested with weevils.

Baker Koh Soon Chye agreed, but asked that Ang first sift the flour to remove the pests before delivering the stock.

Koh, 41, was fined $40,000 last September and ordered to pay a penalty of $7,020, which is the amount of bribes he received.

Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.

 

[Shermie]

put under the sun to get rid of weevils.