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Former SP PowerGrid technical officer jailed for graft
Published on Feb 3, 2012
By Elena Chong
A former technical officer was jailed for four weeks and ordered to pay a penalty of $1,600 for corruption on Friday.
Ahmad Aman, 54, admitted to corruptly accepting $800 from Mr Ng Ah Tai, a project supervisor of Ley Choon Construction and Engineering, in return for not reporting truthfully to his employer, SP PowerGrid (SPPG), that the cable damage was caused by Ley Choon.
A district court heard that Ahmad, now unemployed, was assigned to investigate a case of power street lighting outage at Marina Street on Mar 5, 2011.
Freelance cable jointer Chua Kar Leng, who was working as a subcontractor for SPPG's term contractor United Works, was called to assess the situation. He found that the damage caused by Ley Choon was not serious.
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
