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Feb 8, 2010
Jail term 'too harsh' for role
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Eight months in jail is too harsh a punishment for the minor role Whang Sung Lin (above) played in Singapore's first illegal organ transplant case, said his lawyer on Monday. -- ST PHOTO: LIM WUI LIANG
Mr Tang Wee Sung (above) was dying and had been seeking a kidney donor in various foreign countries for some time. -- ST PHOTO: CAROLINE CHIA
EIGHT months in jail is too harsh a punishment for the minor role Whang Sung Lin played in Singapore's first illegal organ transplant case, said his lawyer on Monday. The 45-year-old businessman had merely given his uncle-in-law Tang Wee Sung, whose kidneys were failing, the telephone number of organ dealer Wang Chin Sing, said Mr Subhas Anandan. For this, he was convicted and sentenced last June for instigating his friend, Mr Wang, 44, and retail magnate Tang, 56, to form an illegal arrangement to buy a kidney for the ailing Mr Tang in 2008.
There was no instigation, Mr Anandan argued at the appeal in the High Court on Monday. Whang was 'merely a conduit and definitely not the catalyst', he said. Mr Tang, 56, needed no instigation. He was dying and had been seeking a kidney donor in various foreign countries for some time. As for the organ procurer, Wang needed no goading as he had arranged organ transplants in the past and admitted that this was his business. Disagreeing that Whang's role was minor, Deputy Public Prosecutor Chay Yuen Fatt said that it was Whang who instigated Mr Wang to demand $300,000 from Mr Tang. Justice Tay Yong Kwang will deliver his decision on Feb 12.
Feb 8, 2010
Jail term 'too harsh' for role
<!-- by line --> By Khushwant Singh
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Eight months in jail is too harsh a punishment for the minor role Whang Sung Lin (above) played in Singapore's first illegal organ transplant case, said his lawyer on Monday. -- ST PHOTO: LIM WUI LIANG
Mr Tang Wee Sung (above) was dying and had been seeking a kidney donor in various foreign countries for some time. -- ST PHOTO: CAROLINE CHIA
EIGHT months in jail is too harsh a punishment for the minor role Whang Sung Lin played in Singapore's first illegal organ transplant case, said his lawyer on Monday. The 45-year-old businessman had merely given his uncle-in-law Tang Wee Sung, whose kidneys were failing, the telephone number of organ dealer Wang Chin Sing, said Mr Subhas Anandan. For this, he was convicted and sentenced last June for instigating his friend, Mr Wang, 44, and retail magnate Tang, 56, to form an illegal arrangement to buy a kidney for the ailing Mr Tang in 2008.
There was no instigation, Mr Anandan argued at the appeal in the High Court on Monday. Whang was 'merely a conduit and definitely not the catalyst', he said. Mr Tang, 56, needed no instigation. He was dying and had been seeking a kidney donor in various foreign countries for some time. As for the organ procurer, Wang needed no goading as he had arranged organ transplants in the past and admitted that this was his business. Disagreeing that Whang's role was minor, Deputy Public Prosecutor Chay Yuen Fatt said that it was Whang who instigated Mr Wang to demand $300,000 from Mr Tang. Justice Tay Yong Kwang will deliver his decision on Feb 12.