Police sergeant on graft charges

[Katana]

Nov 24, 2009
Police sergeant on graft charges
By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
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<!-- end left side bar --> <!-- story content : start --> A POLICE sergeant was charged in court on Tuesday with bribing five of his colleagues to keep mum about his misappropriating a wallet and contraband cigarettes. Elvilin Tay Sheo Tang, 35, claimed trial to four charges of giving a $50 bribe each to four colleagues from Ang Mo Kio North Neighbourhood Police Centre, and offering $50 to staff sergeant Zulkifli Mohamad. He is alleged to have bribed them so that they would not report him to his supervisor of having pocketed a wallet containing a stack of $50 notes amounting to $300 and a carton of cigarettes found during an unauthorised raid at a forested area off Seletar Road that day. He was given until next Tuesday to engage a lawyer. If convicted, he faces a fine of up to $100,000 and/or a jail term of up to five years on each charge.

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[Hans168]

Police here are assholes......... I got fren who got abused by a corporal who threatened to handcuff him although he is already sr citizen and hence immuned from handcuffing. The corporal also shouted at him. Real abuse of power!! The bastard was part of Immigration police in Woodlands

 

[General Veers]

Colleague of cop charged with corruption says he was offered $50 to keep quiet


Colleague of cop charged with corruption says he was offered $50 to keep quiet
By Ho Lian-Yi
April 20, 2010

A police officer who found $300 and a carton of contraband cigarettes and shared the spoils with his colleagues is now on trial for corruption.

Sergeant Elvilin Tay Sheo Tang, 36, allegedly gave a $50 bribe each to four colleagues to keep them quiet after he illegally used the cigarettes for his own purposes.

He had offered a fifth colleague the same amount but the offer was rejected, reported The Straits Times.

The charges are serious enough that if convicted, Tay faces a fine of up to $100,000 and/or a jail term of up to five years on each of the five corruption charges against him.