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Jan 13, 2010
Ex-NSman jailed for graft
<!-- by line --> By Elena Chong
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<!-- end left side bar --> <!-- story content : start --> A FORMER full-time national serviceman, who helped foreign navy personnel smuggle duty-unpaid cigarettes out of two naval bases, was sentenced to 15 months' jail on Wednesday. But Adrian Tan, 24, was offered bail of $30,000 pending his appeal. The former lance-corporal was convicted earlier by District Judge Eddy Tham of two graft charges after a trial. Tan was found guilty of corruptly accepting a packet of contraband cigarettes from an unknown Indonesian naval staff as an inducement to help some Indonesian naval people transport boxes wrapped in trash bags which he believed to contain contraband cigarettes out of Changi Naval Base in April 2008. He was also convicted of getting four packets of contraband cigarettes for helping some members of the Indonesian Navy transport boxes which he believed to contained contraband cigarettes out of Tuas Naval Base two months later. Two others, Ee Jin Liang, 23, and Ang Zi Heng, 22, have been dealt with. Ee was jailed for 53 months last August on three charges, while Ang was given 16 months' jail and ordered to pay a penalty of $756 in March last year. Tan could have been fined up to $100,000 and/or jailed for up to five years on each charge.
Home > Breaking News > Singapore > Story
Jan 13, 2010
Ex-NSman jailed for graft
<!-- by line --> By Elena Chong
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<!-- end left side bar --> <!-- story content : start --> A FORMER full-time national serviceman, who helped foreign navy personnel smuggle duty-unpaid cigarettes out of two naval bases, was sentenced to 15 months' jail on Wednesday. But Adrian Tan, 24, was offered bail of $30,000 pending his appeal. The former lance-corporal was convicted earlier by District Judge Eddy Tham of two graft charges after a trial. Tan was found guilty of corruptly accepting a packet of contraband cigarettes from an unknown Indonesian naval staff as an inducement to help some Indonesian naval people transport boxes wrapped in trash bags which he believed to contain contraband cigarettes out of Changi Naval Base in April 2008. He was also convicted of getting four packets of contraband cigarettes for helping some members of the Indonesian Navy transport boxes which he believed to contained contraband cigarettes out of Tuas Naval Base two months later. Two others, Ee Jin Liang, 23, and Ang Zi Heng, 22, have been dealt with. Ee was jailed for 53 months last August on three charges, while Ang was given 16 months' jail and ordered to pay a penalty of $756 in March last year. Tan could have been fined up to $100,000 and/or jailed for up to five years on each charge.
