Three chefs charged with corruption

[Kyo Kusanagi]

Three chefs charged with corruption

By Claire Huang | Posted: 28 November 2012 1347 hrs

Subordinate Courts (file photo)

SINGAPORE: Three chefs have been charged with corruption.

Chung Yiu Ming, 54, Ng Wai Tong, 52, and Go Choon Heng, 41, are alleged to have accepted a total of $32,204.40 in bribes from a seafood supplier in exchange for business favours.

Chung, an executive chef at Sheraton Towers Singapore at the time of the offences, faces 11 charges.

He is accused of pocketing more than $21,800 from a seafood supplier, Tay Ee Tiong, between July 2007 and July 2009.

In exchange, Chung allegedly ensured that Sheraton Towers bought seafood from Wealthy Seafood Product and Enterprise, owned by Tay.

Similarly, Ng, who was a master chef at Sichuan Douhua Restaurant at the time of the offences, faces three charges.

He is accused of accepting more than $5,800 from Tay between March and August 2009.

Go, a senior chef of Hilton Singapore Hotel at the time of the offences, was charged with two counts of corruption.

He allegedly accepted about S$4,500 in bribes between March and June 2009, in exchange for ordering seafood supplies from Tay.

If convicted, the trio face the maximum fine of $100,000 and a jail term of five years.

- CNA/ck/de

 

[Imperial Shuttle]

Photo of Ng Wai Tong, 52-year-old master chef of Sichuan Douhua restaurant who is alleged to have accepted a total of $5,811 from Tay Ee Tiong between March and August 2009. He and two other chefs were hauled to court on Wednesday to face corruption charges of accepting bribes from a seafood supplier. Chung Yiu Ming, 54, faces 11 charges while Ng Wai Tong, 52, and Go Choon Heng, 41, face three and two charges respectively. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW


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[OppaGANGNAMStyle]

Watch a hongkong serial also got such corruption by chefs and it's to do with secret recipes.

 

[kingrant]

Chefs colluding with suppliers is a real menace to restaurant owners who just want to run a decent joint. They are the reason for compromises in food hygiene, food quality, and soaring business costs. It should be stamped out. It is the reason why restaurants are family owned and managed and chefs are their own members. Hence outsiders are seldom trusted and that ends up screwing the career prospects of budding honest chefs.

 

[Feryl]

Been a person professional who cooks for other people, their undertable skill also not bad.

 

[Anonymouse]

Two chefs plead guilty to accepting bribes from seafood supplier
By Kimberly Spykerman | Posted: 28 December 2012 1816 hrs

SINGAPORE : Two senior chefs on Friday pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from a seafood supplier.

They are among 19 chefs alleged to have accepted nearly S$1 million in kickbacks from seafood supplier Wealthy Seafood Product and Enterprise.

The offences are said to have occurred between 2006 and 2009.

Tay Ee Tiong, owner of Wealthy Seafood, was jailed 18 months in September 2011 for bribing 19 chefs from 17 hotels and restaurants, with the amount totalling S$992,404.

In the docks on Friday were former senior Chinese chef of the Hilton hotel, Go Choon Heng, and then master chef of Sichuan Douhua Restaurant, Ng Wai Tong.

Go faced two charges of accepting a total of S$4,496 from Tay between March and June 2009, while Ng faced three charges of accepting a total of S$5,811 between March and August 2009.

The prosecution proceeded with one charge for each of the men.

According to court documents, Go got to know Tay sometime in late 2008, when Tay held his son's wedding at the Hilton hotel.

Tay then asked Go to get Hilton hotel to use shark fins supplied by Wealthy Seafood.

In early 2009, Tay contacted Go and invited him for drinks.

There, he proposed to pay Go a commission if he was able to get Hilton hotel to purchase seafood products from him.

Go agreed to the offer, got Tay to send the products to the hotel for tasting, and subsequently made a recommendation.

Based on Go's recommendation, Hilton hotel purchased the seafood products from Tay's company.

Go later collected about S$2,500 from Tay as inducement to continue to show favour to Tay's company.

Similarly in Ng's case, Tay contacted him to ask if he could promote his seafood products at the restaurant, which is located at Parkroyal Hotel Beach Road, for the Lunar New Year period.

He also said he would reward Ng if he succeeded in getting the restaurant to order seafood products from Wealthy Seafood.

Tay was similarly asked to send some samples to the restaurant for tasting, and Ng proceeded to recommend Tay's products.

Ng also collected a red packet containing about S$3,700 from Tay later.

Both men could be jailed up to five years and fined up to S$100,000.

They will be sentenced on January 15.

- CNA/ms

 

[G00DUSAMI]

Pap steal more money from town councils!

 

[Eomer]

Two chefs fined for accepting bribes from a seafood supplier

Published on Jan 29, 2013

Go Choon Heng, 41, former senior Chinese chef at Hilton Hotel, was fined $8,000 for accepting $5,811 in bribes. He was also ordered to return the full amount of bribes to the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW

By Khushwant Singh

Two former top chefs received their just desserts Tuesday for accepting bribes from a seafood supplier.

Go Choon Heng, 41, former senior Chinese chef at Hilton Hotel, was fined $5,000 for accepting $4,496 in bribes, Ng Wai Tong, 52, former master chef of the Si Chuan Dou Hua Restaurant at Parkroyal Hotel was fined $6,000 for pocketing $5,811. They were also ordered to return the full amount of bribes to the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau.

Now unemployed, the two chefs pleaded guilty in December to receiving the money from Tay Ee Tiong, 56, the sole proprietor of Wealthy Seafood Product and Enterprise in 2009. In return, both recommended that their restaurants buy seafood from Tay's firm.

Tay had been sentenced to 1½ years in jail in 2011. He had pleaded guilty to giving nearly $1 million in bribes to 19 chefs from 17 hotels and restaurants.

 

[andyfisher]

ccb,
makan also want to makan duit like that. :oIo:

But if anyone know where they open their own makan joint, pls pass the lobang to us hehehe