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Mar 30, 2011
Two jailed for passport and bribery offences
By Elena Chong
Krishna Rao Rajahram, 31, was given 18 months' jail and ordered to pay a penalty of $2,000 and his accomplice, Loganathan Samugam, 26, was given 12 months' jail.
TWO former auxiliary police officers were jailed on Wednesday for conspiring with several others to commit a passport offence and for bribery.
Krishna Rao Rajahram, 31, was given 18 months' jail and ordered to pay a penalty of $2,000 after he admitted to three of five charges.
His accomplice, Loganathan Samugam, 26, was given 12 months' jail after pleading guilty to two charges. He had corruptly agreed to accept $2,000 from one Sivarajah Paki, also known as Rathan, in return for not screening a Sri Lankan national before the latter boarded a Paris-bound flight last October using a Malaysian man's passport and boarding pass at Changi Airport.
His role in the conspiracy was to retrieve travel documents from a toilet at the transit lounge and hand them to the Sri Lankan Murugesu Navaratnarasa,. He would then guide the man to the departure gate where Rajahram would be stationed.
But the passenger, together with the two Aetos officers, was arrested by Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officers before he could board the Paris-bound flight.
In the case of Rajahram, he received a bribe of $2,000 from Sivarajah at a carpark near Sim Lim Square on Oct 10, three days after another Sri Lankan had succeeded in boarding the Air France flight for Paris.
Murugesu was jailed for a year last December. Sivarajah, a Swedish national of Sri Lankan origin, remains on the run.
