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Company boss denies asking personal driver to take rap for traffic offences
17 Sep 2012
SOURCE: Straits Times Online
The boss of a gold and metal recycling company has denied asking his personal driver to get others to take the rap for traffic offences committed by his friends.
Seah Hock Thiam, 45, president of Esun International, took the stand on Monday to defend allegations that he instigated his driver, Mr Mohamad Azmi Abdul Wahab, 40, to get Mr Azmi's friend, driver Salami Badrus, and aunt Rosniwati Jumani, to take the blame for parking offences committed by Mr John Ho Ah Huat and Mr Ong Pang Aik respectively.
Mr Ho, then chief executive of video entertainment company Scorpio East Holdings, and Mr Ong, chairman of construction company Lian Beng Construction, had received letters from the Traffic Police for parking their Porsche and Maserati illegally at Simon Road on Aug 12, 2009.
Seah told the court that after the summonses had been faxed to him by Mr Ong, he handed then to Mr Azmi to settle.
Mr Azmi last week testified that he had filled in the driver's particulars on the the request for driver's particulars with Mr Salami's and the housewife's names on his own accord.
Seah said he had no idea how Mr Azmi was going to settle the summons.
The driver would just have to pay the fine and the case would be settled, he added.
Seah, who studied up to Primary 3, denied the contents in his statement to the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau on May 11, 2010.
The defence case is that Seah's May 11 statement was a cut-and-paste job of the earlier May 4 statement recorded by another officer.
Asked by his lawyer Selva K. Naidu if he would have benefitted for taking the risk of getting others to take the blame for Mr Ong and Mr Ho, Seah replied: "Nothing.''
The trial continues.
