Traffic offence: double standard (one law for elites, one law for peasants)

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Same offence, different punishment: Charlie got 6 months' jail, Woffles Wu got $1,000 fine.

Sales executive jailed for asking others to take rap for traffic offence

17 Sep 2010

SINGAPORE : A 51-year-old sales executive was jailed for six months for asking others to take the blame for his traffic offence.

Charlie Lim Chau Lee was caught speeding along Lornie Road at 4:06pm on 18 August 2008.

He received a summons from the Traffic Police, informing him that he was liable to a fine of S$150 and six demerit points.

Charlie Lim asked a middleman to find someone to take the blame on his behalf in exchange for $100.

The court heard that a man identified as Lim Kim Hock agreed to do so at first.

But he soon backed out of the deal after finding out that it was illegal to do so.

Charlie Lim then approached 39-year-old Lim Ah Hwa who allegedly agreed to take the blame.

He passed her S$150 for the fine and gave her an additional S$300 as a reward in September that year.

Ah Hwa will be back in court on 8 October.

Charlie Lim was also fined S$1,000 on Friday for failing to stop when the traffic lights turned red at the junction of Victoria and Arab Streets at around 9:05pm on 28 December 2008.

His ex-colleague, 54-year-old Benny Sng Kwee Hock took the rap for this offence.

Sng was sentenced to six weeks' jail as he had intentionally perverted the course of justice.
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Plastic surgeon Woffles Wu fined S$1,000

13 June 2012

SINGAPORE: Prominent plastic surgeon Woffles Wu Tze Liang has been ordered to pay the maximum fine of S$1,000 for getting an elderly employee to take the rap for him for a speeding offence.

The 52-year-old had abetted Mr Kuan Kit Wah, then 76, to provide false information to the police in November 2006.

The car, belonging to Wu, was travelling at 91-kilometres per hour along Adam Road when the speed limit is 70 kilometres per hour.

The court heard that Wu also made Mr Kuan take the rap for him for another speeding offence in September 2005.

This charge was taken into consideration during the sentencing on June 12.

Wu could also have been jailed up to six months and fined.

 

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BTW, Charlie should consider lucky he is still alive to pay the fine.

"Charlie Lim was also fined S$1,000 on Friday for failing to stop when the traffic lights turned red at the junction of Victoria and Arab Streets at around 9:05pm on 28 December 2008. "