Pub owner jailed for paying bribes to prolong stay of workers
Published on Dec 3, 2014 6:32 PM
By Ian Poh
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SINGAPORE - A pub owner who paid bribes to prolong the stay of foreign hostesses working for him was jailed for eight months on Wednesday.
Andrew Song Meng Choon, 51, had employed the Filipinos at his Bonski Karaoke pub in River Valley Road, even though they were only in Singapore on 30-day visit passes.
On five occasions in 2011, he handed over sums amounting to $2,800 to a middleman. The money found its way to corrupt Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officers, who would help the foreigners do a "U-turn".
In a "U-turn" case, the foreigner exits Singapore to a nearby country, such as Malaysia, and re-enters the country within the same day, or a short time later, to get a fresh social visit pass.
