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Former NUS lecturer gets 12-month suspended jail term
By Leslie Tang | Posted: 25 March 2010 2118 hrs
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HONG KONG : A former lecturer with the National University of Singapore has escaped jail time, although she was found guilty of conspiring to defraud a Hong Kong university.
Dr Vivienne Wee was associate professor at Hong Kong's City University at the time of the offence.
She was given a 12-month jail term, suspended for 3 years - that means if Wee does not commit another offence in that period, she will not have to serve her sentence.
The 58-year-old Singaporean, and her brother Gregory, were found guilty of hiding a conflict of interest concerning an IT contract worth US$128,000.
The court was not as lenient with Wee's brother, who has to serve 12 months in jail.
The IT contract was for a project headed by Wee, to build a website and intranet. It was won by the company Sparkland, but the job was actually done by Locus Interactive, run by Wee's sister-in-law and Gregory's wife.
Both the owner of Sparkland and Ng were also found guilty.
The judge acknowledged that the incompetence of City U's finance office was partly to blame.
Wee is a founding member of AWARE, one of Singapore's most established civil-society groups.
In court, Wee closed her eyes in relief upon hearing her sentence. The judge said she took into account Wee's good reputation, her work towards helping underprivileged women and her age in handing down a lighter sentence.
- CNA/al
By Leslie Tang | Posted: 25 March 2010 2118 hrs
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HONG KONG : A former lecturer with the National University of Singapore has escaped jail time, although she was found guilty of conspiring to defraud a Hong Kong university.
Dr Vivienne Wee was associate professor at Hong Kong's City University at the time of the offence.
She was given a 12-month jail term, suspended for 3 years - that means if Wee does not commit another offence in that period, she will not have to serve her sentence.
The 58-year-old Singaporean, and her brother Gregory, were found guilty of hiding a conflict of interest concerning an IT contract worth US$128,000.
The court was not as lenient with Wee's brother, who has to serve 12 months in jail.
The IT contract was for a project headed by Wee, to build a website and intranet. It was won by the company Sparkland, but the job was actually done by Locus Interactive, run by Wee's sister-in-law and Gregory's wife.
Both the owner of Sparkland and Ng were also found guilty.
The judge acknowledged that the incompetence of City U's finance office was partly to blame.
Wee is a founding member of AWARE, one of Singapore's most established civil-society groups.
In court, Wee closed her eyes in relief upon hearing her sentence. The judge said she took into account Wee's good reputation, her work towards helping underprivileged women and her age in handing down a lighter sentence.
- CNA/al
