Thread on Peter Lim's case...

BuiKia · Feb 19, 2013

Thinking that it would be easier if all things about his case be posted here...

Sex-for-contracts: Prosecution says Peter Lim obtained oral sex corruptly
18 Feb 2013

Former SCDF chief Peter Lim knew or had reason to believe that a woman would give in to his request for oral sex because she was interested in having further business dealings between her company and the SCDF, a court heard on Monday morning.

Lim, 52, faces 10 counts of corruption in a sex-for-contracts case. But, as decided earlier, the prosecution will proceed with one charge involving Ms Pang Chor Mui from Nimrod Engineering first.

In his opening address, Deputy Public Prosecutor Tan Kiat Pheng said that Lim, who was the Commissioner of the Singapore Civil Defence Force, knew that Nimrod was an existing vendor to SCDF at the time of the oral sex on May 2, 2010.

Nimrod had supplied products to SCDF, and also provides after-sales warranty services for those products.

When he obtained oral sex from Ms Pang, he knew she was the general manager in Nimrod Engineering and he knew that she was aware of his position at the SCDF, the court heard.

The DPP said she was concerned about the existing good relationship that she and her company had with Lim, and she did not wish to jeopardise this relationship by upsetting him if she did not give in to his request for oral sex.

The prosecution said it will also provide evidence to show that after Lim had corruptly obtained oral sex, he contacted Ms Pang to ask about the supply of Radiation Portal Monitors to the SCDF. This was when SCDF's need for such monitors was not yet publicly known, and Nimrod also did not supply them at that time.

With this information, Nimrod proceeded to source for suppliers of these monitors, and later submitted a bid for a contract to supply them to the SCDF, the DPP said.

The prosecution said that under the Prevention of Corruption Act, any gratification given to or received by a civil servant, from a person who has or is seeking to have business dealings with the Government, shall be deemed to have been given and received corruptly. The burden of proof is on the civil servant to prove otherwise.

BuiKia · Feb 19, 2013

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Sex-for-contracts trial: Defence says Peter Lim had "genuine" relationship with woman
18 Feb 2013

The lawyer of former SCDF chief Peter Lim on Monday morning said his client categorically denies any allegations of corruption, and will disprove the "nebulous" arguments of the prosecution.

Lawyer Hamidul Haq said that Lim had a "genuine friendship" with Ms Pang Chor Mui of Nimrod Engineering, and it "involved playful and teasing banter, and intimacy between them".

The oral sex was a "one-off encounter" and was merely a physical expression of the personal relationship shared between the two, he said. Lim did not at anytime request to be fellated by Ms Pang.

The lawyer noted that Ms Pang - who is said to be married and a mother of a teenager - has since resigned from Nimrod.

He added that Lim's only wrongdoing was his "personal indiscretion" and said the state is not responsible for policing marital vows.

Ms Pang, who is in her 40s, is expected to take the stand as a witness for the prosecution.

Lim faces nine other charges of corruption but these have been stood down and will be dealt with separately.

They involve sex with Ms Esther Goh of IT firm NCS and Ms Lee Wei Hoon of Singapore Radiation Centre.

BuiKia · Feb 19, 2013

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Ex-SCDF chief trial: "Not an abnormal request" to research radioactive detectors
18 Feb 2013

The first witness in the sex-for-contracts trial involving former chief of the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) Peter Lim Sin Pang was called to the stand Monday morning.

Business development manager Mr Raymond Tan Peng Leng during cross-examination by the prosecution and the defence, said that he was told in March 2011 to look online for suppliers of walkthrough radioactive detectors on the instructions of Ms Pang Chor Mui.

He told that court that this was before the SCDF tender documents were released and he was not given specifics such as budget and deadline.

He found two American companies, and Nimrod Engineering eventually worked with one of them to tender for the SCDF project called in April 2011, which asked for the same type of detectors that he had researched.

When asked if he felt it was an abnormal request, he said: "No, in my thinking because I thought it is for the Japanese earthquake, there's a disaster so in my mind I thought she saw some potential in this product and asked me to look for this."

Lim, 52, faces 10 counts of corruption in a sex-for-contracts case. But, as decided earlier, the prosecution will proceed with one charge involving Ms Pang Chor Mui, in her 40s, from Nimrod Engineering first.

Lim is alleged to have received oral sex from Ms Pang on May 2, 2010 in exchange for furthering the business interests of her former company.