Singapore Police to Share Evidence With FBI on Engineer’s Death

[songsongpunggol]

Singapore Police to Share Evidence With FBI on Engineer’s Death
By Andrea Tan - Mar 12, 2013

The Singapore police said it will share evidence from the probe of the death of Shane Todd, an American research engineer who worked in the city, with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

“The Singapore Police Force and FBI have engaged in several discussions and are working together,” the police said in a statement today. The police have “also told FBI that it will share with FBI evidence obtained so far in accordance with the legal framework of both countries,” it said.

Rick Todd, Todd’s father, said the family disputed the Singapore police department’s conclusion that his son had committed suicide and they were seeking further investigation into his death. They raised the issue with lawmakers including Democrat Senator Max Baucus of Montana, who met with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry last week.

Shane Todd had worked at the Institute of Microelectronics in Singapore, a unit of the state-run Agency for Science, Technology and Research. His death may be tied to one of the company’s projects, his father said. The institute said last week it has cooperated fully with the police.

The Singapore police sought assistance from the FBI, asking the family to share any related evidence in their possession with the FBI if they are not comfortable with Singapore investigators, it said March 4.

“Both agencies are committed fully to ensuring that the investigation is thorough and that all available evidence relevant to the cause of, and circumstances connected with the death of Shane Todd is made available at the coroner’s inquiry before the state coroner,” the police said.
Coroner’s Inquiry

The Todd family may pose questions at the inquiry themselves or through a counsel, the police said. “At this fact-finding inquiry, the state coroner will review the evidence adduced, and determine, independently, the cause of, and circumstances connected with the death of Shane Todd,” it said.

Rick Todd said on March 7 the police have requested an external hard drive they took from his son’s apartment in Singapore and a 2002 psychological report done in college. The family have been in contact with the FBI and won’t hand over the two items until the U.S. investigators are allowed to fully participate in the probe in Singapore.

The Financial Times first reported the investigation of Shane Todd’s death. He was 31 when he died, was last seen on the evening of June 22 and was found hanging in his apartment two days later, Rick Todd said.

 

[eatshitndie]

if you read carefully, it's a one-way street. sg poodles wants the disk which is in the fbi's possession now. "share" my foot.

 

[winnipegjets]

Minister Shan has to go to US to make peace ...hope he understands that the administration has no control of senators or congressmen. So, if sinkapore doesn't play ball, congressional hearings will take place.

 

[songsongpunggol]

this thing is waiting at the hanger for Pinky Loong..

 

[prancku]

Minister Shan has to go to US to make peace ...hope he understands that the administration has no control of senators or congressmen. So, if sinkapore doesn't play ball, congressional hearings will take place.

Wah lao eh, sounds serious.

Can ang mo congress call for someone in Singapore to be held responsible for this?

Where does the buck stop? In Istana, not the White House, I mean

 

[greenies]

Minister Shan has to go to US to make peace ...hope he understands that the administration has no control of senators or congressmen. So, if sinkapore doesn't play ball, congressional hearings will take place.

Then, finding solution and escape route for all parties involved could become tough.

 

[winnipegjets]

Wah lao eh, sounds serious.

Can ang mo congress call for someone in Singapore to be held responsible for this?

Where does the buck stop? In Istana, not the White House, I mean

Congressional hearing could force the administration to take action on sinkapore, leading to limits on the island's access to US technology, like weapons sale.

 

[Devil Within]

Who know? Maybe it's the USA gov who murdered their own engineer. Maybe they are afraid that the technology could fall into the other side and decided to silence the engineer once and for all. USA gov is well known to play dirty.

 

[songsongpunggol]

home team damn low kui

basic things like investigation cannot do properly.

must ask angmo come and help.

where is our asian pride?

asians only know how to bullshit.

S'pore invites US to probe into Shane Todd case

Channel NewsAsia Singapore NewsToday, 03:23
SINGAPORE: Singapore's Foreign Minister K Shanmugam said authorities are "committed to getting to the bottom" of the death of an American researcher in Singapore last year.

 

[laksaboy]

Re: home team damn low kui

Home Team was already thick-skinned and buay paiseh when it came up with this:

What pride? What dignity?

 

[Leongsam]

Re: home team damn low kui

basic things like investigation cannot do properly.

The reason why they've invited the Americans is to remove any doubts regarding the integrity of the investigation.

If they refuse assistance, it would be perceived to be a cover up.

 

[THE_CHANSTER]

Re: home team damn low kui

I remember their slogan from back in the day - "The Home Team - Here To Make It Right".

 

[songsongpunggol]

nobody trusts the sinkie poodles!!

despite what evil things the americans have done to the rest of the world, americans still trusts their polis!!

Singapore Presses U.S. Family in Death Probe

By Chun Han Wong

SINGAPORE—Singapore police urged an American couple to cooperate with the investigation into the death of their son, but didn’t accede to their request to put the probe under the oversight of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Associated Press
This undated photo, released by Rick Todd, shows Shane Todd while in Singapore.

Police officials had asked the FBI to help review evidence held by the family of Shane Todd, a research engineer who worked at Singapore’s state-run Institute of Microelectronics before he was found dead in June. The FBI agreed to help, but the Todd family has refused to cooperate unless the FBI gets oversight of the investigation. Police said in a statement Tuesday that they would “continue to work with the FBI to engage the Todd family.”

Rick Todd, father of Shane, said Wednesday in a telephone interview that the family would take a “wait-and-see approach” to gauge whether the Singapore police would allow greater cooperation with the FBI. The family still wants to see the FBI given “full oversight” over the probe before providing any evidence, he said.

Read the full story.

 

[songsongpunggol]

Re: nobody trusts the sinkie poodles!!

now the whole world knows singapore is one bad assed country...


March 13, 2013
Singapore Pledges Inquiry Into Death of American Engineer
By ANDREW SIDDONS

WASHINGTON – Singapore’s foreign minister pledged on Tuesday that his country would investigate the death of an American engineer whose family rejects a Singaporean police finding that their son committed suicide.

The death of Shane Todd, whose body was found in his Singapore apartment hours after his last day working for a government research agency there, has threatened to undermine the cordial relations between the United States and Singapore.

The Singaporean foreign minister, K. Shanmugam, met in Washington Tuesday with Senator Max Baucus, who has been pushing for U.S. involvement in the inquiry. After the meeting, Mr. Shanmugan pledged a full investigation and welcomed the involvement of Mr. Todd’s family.

“There will be a public inquiry where all the relevant evidence will be presented,” Mr. Shanmugam said, adding that the Mr. Todd’s family will be entitled to appoint their own lawyers and take part in the investigation.

Although the death in June was ruled by Singapore’s police force to be a suicide by hanging, a report in the Financial Times published last month suggested that the investigation was flawed and its conclusions suspect. The report also said that before his death, Mr. Todd had feared that a project he was working on would be used for military applications by China.

Mr. Baucus suggested that Singapore had to be more forthcoming about Mr. Todd’s death.

“So far we are unable to get the answers we need to know what happened to Shane,” Mr. Baucus, a Democrat who represents the Todd family’s home state of Montana, said before his meeting with Mr. Shanmugam.

According to the Financial Times report, Mr. Todd was purchasing technology with military uses from an American firm, and because the project also involved the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, he was afraid that U.S. security could be compromised.

Last fall, a report by the intelligence committee of the U.S. House of Representatives deemed Huawei a national security threat because of its ties to a “cyberwarfare” unit of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.

“We are unable to know the degree to which there might be some breach of national security,” Mr. Baucus said.

Mr. Shanmugam denied on Tuesday that there had been a transfer of technology to China.

"The institute involved, the research institute, is subject to a very rigorous audit, and we are very happy for a U.S. team to come down and look at the project, and it will be very clear that there was no transfer of technology,” he said.

“We have offered, and I offer again, our deepest condolences to the family of the young man,” he said. “We’re all deeply saddened by what happened.”

Singapore’s police force also announced on Tuesday that it would cooperate with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation in looking into Mr. Todd’s death. According to its statement, the police force will share with the F.B.I. the evidence it has collected, which, according to the Financial Times, include his laptops and mobile phone.

Mr. Shanmugam said that Singapore’s police have specifically asked the F.B.I. for assistance analyzing a hard drive that Mr. Todd’s mother found in his apartment after his death. The Todd family has refused to hand the hard drive over to the authorities in Singapore, offering instead to give it to the F.B.I.

In addition to the meeting with Mr. Baucus, Mr. Shanmugam was to meet Wednesday with Secretary of State John Kerry and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who heads the agency that oversees the F.B.I.

Mr. Shanmugam said that his trip here had been long planned. The statement announcing his trip, and the police statement announcing cooperation with the F.B.I., seemed designed to stifle suggestions that his visit to Washington was anything but routine.

But when asked whether the case was beginning to affect the relationship between the U.S. and Singapore, he suggested it had not.

“The Singapore-U.S. relationship is multifaceted,” he said. “It’s got many engagement points and is an extremely important relationship for both.”

 

[winnipegjets]

Re: nobody trusts the sinkie poodles!!

The family is right to distrust the sinkapore authorities. The family had offered police the content of the portable hard disks but the police demanded to have the disk instead. IME didn't want to speak to the family after one meeting. Why?

The family have questions to address, yet no one in sinkapore was willing to answer them.

They will get better cooperation from the FBI.

 

[winnipegjets]

Re: nobody trusts the sinkie poodles!!

“There will be a public inquiry where all the relevant evidence will be presented,” Mr. Shanmugam said, adding that the Mr. Todd’s family will be entitled to appoint their own lawyers and take part in the investigation.

Sinkapore caves in ...some heads in the SPF and IME should roll for allowing this matter to get out of hand and forcing FM Shan to do damage control and kowtow to the Yankees. Who are the scholars that will get the rap?

 

[songsongpunggol]

Re: home team damn low kui

The reason why they've invited the Americans is to remove any doubts regarding the integrity of the investigation.

If they refuse assistance, it would be perceived to be a cover up.

if they have done it right the first time, do you think they need a follow up?

 

[StarshipTroopers]

US, S'pore officials hold discussions on Shane Todd's death
Posted: 21 March 2013 1523 hrs

SINGAPORE: The US embassy in Singapore said law enforcement officials from the US and Singapore held productive and forthright discussions on the case of Dr Shane Todd, an American researcher who died in Singapore last June.

They met on Monday to follow up on the visit to Washington last week by Singapore's Foreign Minister K Shanmugam, as well as his conversations on the case with Secretary of State John Kerry, Attorney General Eric Holder and Senator Max Baucus.

The embassy said on Thursday that the cooperation and information sharing at Monday's meeting are consistent with the assurances provided in Washington and in accordance with the legal frameworks of both countries.

It said it will not comment on the details of the discussions or speculate on the outcome of the investigation, as the case is ongoing and is led by Singapore law enforcement authorities.

The Singapore Police Force has said it would ensure a thorough probe into the death of Dr Todd. He was found hanged in his apartment.

His parents believe he was murdered over work he had done while employed at Singapore's Institute of Microelectronics (IME), which is part of Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research.

- CNA/xq

 

[GoldenDragon]

Re: nobody trusts the sinkie poodles!!

Who are the scholars that will get the rap?

Scholars never take any rap. Many TPKs on stand-by.

 

[Lee5604]

Re: nobody trusts the sinkie poodles!!

Scholars never take any rap. Many TPKs on stand-by.

Bro GD, what are TPKs?

Thanks