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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->EVERY time construction worker Peramasamy Sivakumar was done with his day's work, he had to pay a company to dispose of the renovation debris.
So when cleaner Razaul Fazlul Hoque offered to let him throw his bulky waste items into a refuse compactor at an HDB block in Bishan Street 13 in return for a small fee, Peramasamy readily agreed.
The Indian national, 29, paid Mr Razaul $15 each time for the favour.
Yesterday, Peramasamy was fined $6,000 after pleading guilty to bribing Mr Razaul on five occasions in 2006.
On Dec 21, 2006, the corrupt pact between the two was discovered by a passer-by, who reported it to the National Environment Agency (NEA).
Mr Razaul's job as a conservancy worker with waste collector Primech Services & Engineering was also to guard against bulky items being put into the compactor, which could be damaged as a result.
Mr Razaul, a 38-year-old Bangladeshi national, was fined $6,000 last Friday. He also paid a penalty of $60 - the sum of his ill-gotten gains.
Yesterday, it was Peramasamy's turn. He had been carrying out renovation works for Jin Hong Construction when he committed the offences.
An NEA spokesman told The Straits Times that the refuse compactors in HDB bin centres are meant for the disposal of household waste only. Renovation contractors may send their bulky debris to the Tuas Marine Transfer Station. KHUSHWANT SINGH
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->EVERY time construction worker Peramasamy Sivakumar was done with his day's work, he had to pay a company to dispose of the renovation debris.
So when cleaner Razaul Fazlul Hoque offered to let him throw his bulky waste items into a refuse compactor at an HDB block in Bishan Street 13 in return for a small fee, Peramasamy readily agreed.
The Indian national, 29, paid Mr Razaul $15 each time for the favour.
Yesterday, Peramasamy was fined $6,000 after pleading guilty to bribing Mr Razaul on five occasions in 2006.
On Dec 21, 2006, the corrupt pact between the two was discovered by a passer-by, who reported it to the National Environment Agency (NEA).
Mr Razaul's job as a conservancy worker with waste collector Primech Services & Engineering was also to guard against bulky items being put into the compactor, which could be damaged as a result.
Mr Razaul, a 38-year-old Bangladeshi national, was fined $6,000 last Friday. He also paid a penalty of $60 - the sum of his ill-gotten gains.
Yesterday, it was Peramasamy's turn. He had been carrying out renovation works for Jin Hong Construction when he committed the offences.
An NEA spokesman told The Straits Times that the refuse compactors in HDB bin centres are meant for the disposal of household waste only. Renovation contractors may send their bulky debris to the Tuas Marine Transfer Station. KHUSHWANT SINGH
