Dear Scroobal.
Under Section eight and nine of the corruption act. I could offer a bribe to a road sweeper for him to award me an IT contract seperate to the ministry he worked for and I would be liable for offering the bribe and if accepted the road sweeper would be guilty to. Similarly a director accepting coffee from a vendor would be presumed to be corrupt under section 8.
Very few people realise about the pervasiveness and all encompassing nature of the language of the act and that was the part that NBG fell foul off.
This landmark case will test the "definition" of corruption. as the wording for the act as previous cases were clear cut. A direct benefit for a direct result, embezzelemnt etc etc. NBG falls into the loose ends of the definition and I dare say that if NBG is found guilty, then any civil servant , ps, ds , accepting dinner, golf game etc from a local company would be liable as well or for that matter a director accepting a cup of kopi o.
My prediction is aquittal on appeal.
Locke
Guilty seems to be the favorite with Acquittal being the outside bet. Might seem fairer if we lay odds.
If I were making a market, the odds I would typically give would be
Guilty 1
Acquittal 4
Have not been making market for too long. Converting this to the more familiar football style odds with no over round, we have
Guilty 1.42
Acquitted 3.85
On PCA charges, ACQUITTAL.
Prosecution to appeal.
bro,
simi is PCA charges?
Is that the payout rate or odds of it happening?
Guilty - 0.44
Acquitted - 5.55
Bro u zun bo?I want to bang all in at Guility 1.42 now@singapore pools style.Sorry for the confusion. Converting this to football style odds, my initial estimate was
Guilty 1.25
Acquital 5.00
As the trail wore on and CS started to flip flop, a large number of bros started to bet Acquital, shortening the odds. The last I tallied was
Guilty 1.42
Acquital 3.85
Will update as the betting goes on.
Assume cs testimony is throw out, that still leaves original case...question is in what was cs 'perjury' if it is that affect garment case..
Acquitted is my wager
Reason is that is the only Witness they have..
His only defence is to claim that he's Gay and could not possibly have wanted those things.
Guilty - 0.44
Acquitted - 5.55
Don't just do roll call lah. Do a head count.
Convicted 14
Acquitted 5
Total 19