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Nov 12, 2009
2nd ICA officer jailed <!--10 min-->
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Dong Ching Jit was jailed 18 months on Thursday for accepting bribes to extend the social visit passes of foreign nationals. -- ST PHOTO: AZIZ HUSSIN
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SENIOR immigration officer Dong Ching Jit, 56, was jailed 18 months on Thursday for accepting bribes to extend the social visit passes of foreign nationals. He must also pay a penalty of $10,000, which was the amount the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officer received in two of the four charges he was convicted of last Friday. The amounts in the other charges were not specified. He is the second senior ICA officer to be punished for corruption by a district court this week. On Wednesday, checkpoint inspector Chung Cheong Weng, 60, was jailed eight months for accepting free sexual favours from a Chinese national and for asking her to remove evidence. The pair join about 20 other public officers convicted of corruption every year. Dong is appealing against his conviction and sentence. He has also claimed trial to eight other similar charges that allege he received about $70,000 in bribes.
Nov 12, 2009
2nd ICA officer jailed <!--10 min-->
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Dong Ching Jit was jailed 18 months on Thursday for accepting bribes to extend the social visit passes of foreign nationals. -- ST PHOTO: AZIZ HUSSIN
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SENIOR immigration officer Dong Ching Jit, 56, was jailed 18 months on Thursday for accepting bribes to extend the social visit passes of foreign nationals. He must also pay a penalty of $10,000, which was the amount the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officer received in two of the four charges he was convicted of last Friday. The amounts in the other charges were not specified. He is the second senior ICA officer to be punished for corruption by a district court this week. On Wednesday, checkpoint inspector Chung Cheong Weng, 60, was jailed eight months for accepting free sexual favours from a Chinese national and for asking her to remove evidence. The pair join about 20 other public officers convicted of corruption every year. Dong is appealing against his conviction and sentence. He has also claimed trial to eight other similar charges that allege he received about $70,000 in bribes.
