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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->A FORMER National Parks Board manager who accepted a $3,000 bribe from a businessman in return for revealing the board's tender evaluation criteria was jailed for four months yesterday.
Leong Pak Sing, 39, a former business development manager, was also ordered to pay a penalty of $3,000.
He pleaded guilty to getting the bribe from Mr Andy Tay Choon Moh, a shareholder of JAAS Recreations, in January 2005 as a reward for revealing the tender evaluation criteria of the board in relation to a tender at Pasir Ris Town Park.
In 2004, NParks decided to award a licence for the development and management of recreational fishing cum food and beverage facilities in Pasir Ris Town Park.
At that time, Mr Tay was a well-known figure in the public park recreational and F&B business, owning Fisherman's Village food court and other fishing and bicycle rental business within the public parks managed by NParks.
When he learnt about the fishing pond tender, he set up JAAS with several others to bid for the tender.
To better the company's chances of securing the licence, he decided to look up Leong for help.
When the two met, Leong, faced with financial difficulties then, asked Mr Tay for $3,000 in return for the information. Mr Tay agreed and Leong passed him a tender evaluation form.
Eventually, JAAS obtained the licence from the Ministry of National Development to operate the fishing pond business in July 2004. About six months later, Mr Tay arranged to meet Leong at White Sands Shopping Centre where he passed him $3,000 in $50 bills hidden inside a cigarette wrapper.

 

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Chia bribed his former classmate to help him clinch deals with an NLB subsidiary/ -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->A MAN who gave kickbacks of about $100,000 to a former classmate, in return for his help to clinch contracts with a subsidiary of the National Library Board (NLB), was fined $80,000 yesterday.
Chia Chor Yam, 54, managing director of software development company Knowledge Internet Solutions (KIS), pleaded guilty to bribing Mr Lim Seng Ping, the then chief technical officer of eLpedia, an NLB subsidiary, between May and August in 2004.
Mr Lim, 54, who has since been dealt with, was in overall charge of eLpedia's information technology (IT) matters.
In late 2003, he had approached Chia to provide IT support and solutions to eLpedia.
Several months later, Mr Lim told Chia that eLpedia needed manpower in IT-related fields for its automated library management system.
He said he could help Chia get the contract in return for kickbacks of $8,000 a month. Chia agreed to the deal.
Further investigations showed that Mr Lim ensured that KIS was awarded contracts from eLpedia. To avoid suspicion that the payments to him were bribes, Mr Lim billed KIS for consultation services.
Between May and August in 2004, Chia made three payments of $6,300, $7,000 and $7,000 to Mr Lim as a reward for recommending that the manpower contract of eLpedia be awarded to KIS.
The other 11 remaining charges against Chia were considered during his sentencing. He could have been fined up to $100,000 and/or jailed for up to five years on each of the three charges.
ELENA CHONG

 

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this must be kidding.
in fact,they are one of the hightest paid.