Re: CNB prosecution case going into self-destruct by star witness Cecilia
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http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20120615-352944.html
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By Shaffiq Alkhatib
The New Paper
Saturday, Jun 16, 2012
For months, her pictures were circulated by netizens on online forums.
On Wednesday, pictures of Ms Cecilia Sue Siew Nang, 37, were finally published in the mainstream media.
Ms Sue, a senior sales manager at Oracle Corporation Singapore, is one of the four women accused of being allegedly involved in separate, but similar sex-for-business corruption cases involving two former senior Home Team executives.
She is alleged to have performed oral sex on the former director of the Central Narcotics Bureau, Ng Boon Gay, 46, four times between June and December last year.
Ms Sue lives with her 39-year-old husband in a condominium in the Newton Road area and used to be the director of two companies in 2002 and 2003.
She is also the secretary of another firm, in which her husband is a director and shareholder.
He is also a director and shareholder of four other firms.
The couple married on May 13, 1999, and reportedly have a one-year-old child.
Described by friends as tall and vivacious, Ms Sue was educated at a local polytechnic and an Australian university, The Straits Times reported.
A check of online forums revealed netizens being especially harsh towards Ms Sue and the three other women who were allegedly involved in the corruption cases.
The other three are Miss Esther Goh Tok Mui, Ms Lee Wei Hoon and Ms Pang Chor Mui.
The three are alleged to have been sexually intimate with the
former Commissioner of the Singapore Civil Defence Force, Peter Benedict Lim Sin Pang, 52, who has been charged with corruption in a sex-for-business case.
The women's names and the companies they worked for were named in Lim's court documents.
At the time of the alleged offences, Miss Goh was a director of business development at NCS, Ms Lee was a director at the Singapore Radiation Centre and Ms Pang was a general manager at Nimrod Engineering.
Ms Lee and Ms Pang, both in their 40s, are married and still work for the same companies. Miss Goh, said to be unmarried, is no longer with NCS, reported The Straits Times.
Mr Paul Heng, the managing director of human resources consultancy NeXT Corporate Coaching Services, said that some of the women's colleagues may be prejudiced against the women since details of their alleged deeds became public.
He stressed that they should not assume that the women have actually performed the acts, as nobody has been convicted in court.
He said: "The women's colleagues must acknowledge that nobody has been found guilty yet. But then, I'm sure that some of them already assume that the women are guilty. People have this tendency to judge others."
Take a break
Mr Heng added that if the women resign, others may see the move as an admission of guilt.
Instead, he said that the companies named in the court documents could ask the women to take a break - either on paid leave or otherwise - until the dust settles.
"These women shouldn't be fired as nobody has been found guilty yet. The companies should also remind their employees that the women are innocent until proven otherwise," he added.
In the meantime, Mr Heng said that the women should try and get their loved ones to rally around them, to give them support in these "difficult times".
"The women's loved ones could also help them handle the situation better if they are possibly found guilty in the future."
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