Nparks ass director on trial next month for 22k Brompton bike scandal

[Rogue Trader]

NParks exec to go on trial in Brompton bikes case

By Claire Huang
POSTED: 12 Feb 2014 14:31

The National Parks Board assistant director in the controversial Brompton bikes case will go on trial from next month to fight allegations of providing false information. The hearing will be held over 10 days in March and April.

SINGAPORE: The National Parks Board assistant director in the controversial Brompton bikes case will go on trial from next month to fight allegations of providing false information.

The hearing will be held over 10 days in March and April.

42-year-old Bernard Lim Yong Soon faces two counts of giving false information to officers from the Ministry of National Development (MND), who were conducting an internal audit into NParks' purchase of 26 Brompton bicycles.

Lim, who was overseeing the purchase, had allegedly denied being a friend of the director of Bikehop Singapore, the supplier of the bikes.

He is also accused of getting the director, Lawrence Lim, to give the same false information to the auditors.

The alleged offences took place between June and July in 2012.

National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan had ordered the audit in 2012 after it was reported in a Chinese daily that NParks had purchased Brompton bicycles costing S$2,200 each for its officers.

Bikehop Singapore had won the tender to supply bicycles to NParks.

The report prompted questions over whether the agency got value for money in buying those bikes.


- CNA/xq

 

[laksaboy]

Wow, deny being a friend... some sort of friend that is.

 

[Kuailan]

In the meantime all the Brompton bike are confiscated & store in the warehouse to
rust and corrode!!

Horsay liao!! after the case is over the bike will be laylong ! ~ Cheap sale to the general

public or AUCTION OFF THE LOWEST BIDDER!!

 

[Sinkie]

Wow, deny being a friend... some sort of friend that is.

LOL!! Perhaps he's right. They're not friends, but lovers. LOL!!

 

[ginfreely]

Wow, deny being a friend... some sort of friend that is.

can be not friend but a friend of friend...

 

[songsongjurong]

http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/singapore/story/nparks-officer-tipped-brompton-bikes-supplier-about-2012-government-te


on suspended leave with or without pay ?

NParks officer 'tipped off' Brompton bikes supplier about 2012 government tender

Published on Mar 11, 2014
1:24 PM

The National Parks Board (NParks) officer who oversaw the purchase of 26 Brompton bicycles from supplier Bikehop was a personal friend of its director and had tipped him off about the government tender for the foldable bikes, it emerged in court on Tuesday.

Taking the stand on the first day of the trial against Bernard Lim Yong Soon for lying to auditors investigating the deal, Bikehop's then director Lawrence Lim Chun How said he had first met Bernard Lim in September 2011 at a night cycling event - some three months before NParks invited bids for the procurement of the bicycles.

Bernard Lim had tipped him off and Bikehop successfully put in a bid to supply the bicycles at $2,200 each at a total cost of $57,200.

Then before a March 2012 meeting with NParks to discuss a delay in delivering a batch of the bikes, Mr Lawrence Lim told a district court that the NParks officer Lim had told him to pretend they did not know each other

 

[uglyloser]

 

[laksaboy]

So I guess that you've grown bored of your mission to troll and disrupt this forum, so you've decided to paste the same pics in every thread.

Fuck off to HWZ and don't come back. :kma:

 

[blackmondy]

There are many like him in the civil service, except they weren't caught and exposed.

 

[Devil Within]

He should have gone for the chain-less, shaft-driven bicycle. It's much cheaper and a much better bicycle than those chain driven ones.

http://www.dynamicbicycles.com/
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[GoldenPeriod]

Is he a scholar?

 

[cheesecake]

I bet Sam Leong regretted giving this fuglyloser points to post his rubbish from day one.

I hope it is a permanent ban. Wish other morons in this forum gets the ban hammer too for stupidity.:(

 

[laksaboy]

From 2012:

Khaw defends NParks' purchase of $2,200 foldable bicycle
http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20120704-357117.html

AsiaOne
Wednesday, Jul 04, 2012

National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan has stated via his blog that he supports the National Parks Board's (NParks) decision to purchase Brompton foldable bikes for its staff.

Some Singaporeans had questioned why the purchase for the 26 bicycles - each costing $2,200 - was approved.

Mr Khaw wrote in a blog post on Wednesday that he had asked NParks for the rationale for the purchase. He said NParks cited staff productivity as the main reason for the purchase: "Providing staff with bikes was thought to be a simple and effective way to raise staff productivity as it enables the officer to cover more ground and do more inspections within the same time."

NParks officers in the Park Connector Division cover between 30 to 40km in their daily rounds.

Mr Khaw added that a foldable bicycle was chosen because such bicycles "would eliminate the need for an office van to transport the bikes and the staff to the areas of their daily rounds". The NParks staff would also be able to carry them onto buses and trains where necessary.

He also said that Brompton was picked because only one vendor responded to the tender with a bid price lower than the listed retail price of the same bicycle.

While a Brompton bike costs more than foldable bicycles with similar specifications, Mr Khaw said cyclists told him the bike was durable and would require less maintenance after heavy usage.

He concluded: "It looks like NParks has bought the right equipment. However, it also looks like NParks might have gotten a better deal if there was greater participation in this quotation."

According to the Lianhe Zaobao report where the NParks purchase was first reported, a police officer's bicycle costs about $1,000 while Singapore Post's postmen use bicycles which cost about $500.

 

[blackmondy]

From 2012:

Khaw defends NParks' purchase of $2,200 foldable bicycle

Makes the $8 Penang Cow sound like an accomplice. So will this fucker appear in court to defend Bernard Lim ?

 

[Brubeck]

$2,200 for a bicycle ?

S2,200 can buy me lots of happy-ending massages by PRC mei meis

 

[da dick]

a police officer's bicycle costs about $1,000 while Singapore Post's postmen use bicycles which cost about $500.

cisco bicycle at bishan park: $50. lol temasek holdings boleh!

 

[tanwahp]

The government should have a procurement department to oversee all purchases.

 

[tanwahp]

There are many like him in the civil service, except they weren't caught and exposed.

What about various government departments who clear out the staff welfare budget by splurging on vacations for staff?

 

[oratedar]

No comments or participation in this thread as usual from

1) CPT Goh Meng Seng

2) PAP fucktard retard Wmulew

3) PAP loyal dog charsiewpao Char-Azn

 

[enterprise2]

Remember this case would not be detected if not for whistleblowers or bros/sisters in this forum.