Tag: criminal breach of trust

  • Former SCDF Director Found Guilty Of Criminal Breach Of Trust

    Former SCDF Director Found Guilty Of Criminal Breach Of Trust

    A former director at the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) has been found guilty and convicted of two counts of criminal breach of trust, involving the misappropriation of two iPads in September 2011.

    Jeganathan Ramasamy, 63, was found guilty on Thursday (Oct 22) after a 10-day trial. He had assumed that the two iPads, worth a total of S$1,877, he had obtained from SCDF vendors were for personal use, when in fact the iPads had been entrusted to him for the purpose of testing out SCDF mobile applications developed by an external vendor.

    He gave one iPad to his daughter, and sold the other to his colleague Mr Eric Yap Wee Teck, then a senior director at SCDF, for S$200.

    Mr Yap is now commissioner of the SCDF, having been appointed in February 2012.

    Jeganathan said in his defence that he was under the impression that he could test out the iPads in the hopes of purchasing them later on, but District Judge Shaiffudin Saruwan dismissed this claim.

    The judge is expected to deliver his sentence on Nov 16, after the prosecution and defence have made their submissions on sentence and mitigation, respectively. Criminal breach of trust by a public servant can attract a jail term of up to 20 years’ jail and a fine.

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

  • Sarawak Report: Attorney-General Fired Preparing Arrest Warrant For Najib Razak

    Sarawak Report: Attorney-General Fired Preparing Arrest Warrant For Najib Razak

    Sarawak Report has acquired documents, now verified, which explain exactly why Abdul Gani Patail was dramatically fired on Monday.

    The Attorney General was on the brink of bringing charges for corruption against the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

    We have acquired the secret draft charge sheet documents, which Gani Patail was in the process of drafting.

    They include a charge sheet for corrupt practices under Section 17 (a) of the MACC Act, allowing for punishment of a sentence of up to 20 years in prison under Section 24 of the Act.

    In an unprecedented situation the person being charged was none other than the Prime Minister “Dato’ Seri Mohd Najib Bin Tun Abdul Razak” along with a company director, Dato’ Shamus Anuar Bin Sulaiman.

    The explosive information hits Malaysia in the middle of a highly controversial visit by the  British Prime Minister, who had been widely warned against making such a visit in the midst of Malaysia’ biggest political scandal in decades.

    The documents, which were being worked in their final draft stages by the Attorney General, were sent to Sarawak Report following the sacking of Gani Patail and have now been verified by other senior parties.

    Arrest Warrant for a Prime Minister!

    In English the first of two draft warrants spell out the charges being brought by Malaysia’s most senior law officer (who was unconstitutionally dismissed by the Prime Minister the day after these drafts were printed).

    The warrant cites that the Prime Minister and Shamsul Anuar and “another person still at large Nik Ariff Bin Faisla Kamil” on 26th of December 2014 at the AmIslamic Bank, Bangunan Ambank Group in Kuala Lumpur, as an agent of the Malaysian Government, namely the Prime Minister of Malaysia and special advisor of SRC International, did secretly obtain a sum of money amounting to RM27 million that was paid through the company Gandingan Mentari and Ihsan Perdana to “your account at AmPrivate Banking -1MY no 211201101880″ with the principal aim of obtaining a loan from Kumpulan Wang Persaraan pension fund.

    “As such you have committed an offence under Section 17(1) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Act of 2009, under which you can be punished according to Section 24 of the Act, to be read with Section 34″.

    The punishment cited at the base of the document is imprisonment of not more than 20 years and a fine not less than five times of the value of the bribe taken or RM10,000, whichever is higher.

    Raiding Malaysia’s public pension fund KWAP!

    The crime referred to has already been widely reported following exposes by Sarawak Report and the Wall Street Journal at the start of this month.

    We produced documents from the task force investigation into 1MDB, which showed that its former subsidiary SRC International (whose CEO is Nik Kamil) had made a number of payments into the Prime Minister’s personal accounts totalling millions of ringgit over a period from last December to this February.

    The payments went through the companies Gandingan Menteri Sdn Bhd, of whom the Director was Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil (also wanted for questioning) and Ihsan Perdana Sdn Bhd, whose Director Shamus Anuar is also cited in the warrant.

    The route of the money referred to in the charges

    Criminal Breach of Trust

    A second, alternative draft charge was being worked on by the Attorney General, which Sarawak Report has also obtained.

    Criminal breech of trust - does not even need a warrant for arrest say experts

     

    The second charge relates to the same act on the same day, but refers more specifically to the Prime Minister’s position of trust with regard to the company SRC.  In English it reads:

    “Secret

    The first draft of the charge (alternative)

    That you on 26.12.2014 in AmIslamic Bank Berhad, AmBank Group Building, No. 55 Jalan Raja Chulan, Kuala Lumpur Federal Territory as an agent, as Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Malaysia and Special Adviser (Emeritus Advisor) Company SRC International Sdn Bhd which in that capacity, is entrusted with the control of the fund company, has criminal breach of trust funds, namely dishonestly disposing of SRC International Sdn Bhd Company amounted RM27 juta to your account AmPrivate Banking-1MY no. 2112022011880 via coupling Mentari Sdn Bhd Corporate and Company Ihsan Perdana Sdn Bhd. Therefore you committed the offense and punishable taken of Section 409 of the Penal Code, read together with section 34 of the Penal Code

    Penalties:
    Sabit errors can be jailed for a minimum of 2 years and a maximum of 20 years and with whipping, and a fine.

    Headquarters Complaint No. AU / Rpt No. 252/2015

    Sacked!

    A close insider has now confirmed to Sarawak Report that Patail had arrived at his office on Monday morning expecting to finalise the extremely sensitive charges he was preparing against the Prime Minister, resulting from the investigations of the multi-agency task force into 1MDB.

    “He was finalising it.  He went to his office and found he could not go in. Ali Bin Hamsa, the Chief Secretary to the Government, was waiting and he told him [the Attorney General, Abdul Gani Patail] that he was dismissed.  He could not even get his papers.”

    Within hours of this secret drama at the heart of government, as all Malaysia knows, the Prime Minister had moved to effect what has been described as an attempted coup d’etat.

    Fire on the 10th floor of Bukit Aman last night - it is where all the documents on white collar crime are kept.... a coincidence people are asking?

    The head of Special Branch was removed, the Deputy Prime Minister was dumped and four members of the investigating Parliamentary Accounts Committee were elevated without choice to positions in Cabinet and its work was declared suspended.

    Other known cabinet critics of the the 1MDB scandal have also been unceremoniously dismissed by the Prime Minister.

    It has been also been announced that tomorrow’s meeting of the UMNO Supreme Council, representing the key leadership of the ruling party, has also been cancelled by the Prime Minister.

    Now all Malaysia knows why the Prime Minister has moved to sack the countries top legal officers and top politicians.

    In an irony of perfect timing the Prime Minister is now seeking to use the visit of Britain’s David Cameron as an endorsement of his unconstitutional move to hijack the State of Malaysia.

    Endorsement by the UK of Malaysia's 'coup d'etat'?

     

    Source:www.sarawakreport.org

     

     

  • Fugitive Former NTUC Chairman And PAP MP Finally Charged In Court

    Fugitive Former NTUC Chairman And PAP MP Finally Charged In Court

    Former chairman of the National Trades Union Congress and Member of Parliament Phey Yew Kok appeared in court on Wednesday (Jun 24), after being on the run for almost 36 years.

    Phey was charged on Dec 10, 1979 with four counts of criminal breach of trust of a total of S$82,520, and other offences under the Trade Union Act. He was out on bail at S$100,000 but did not have his passport impounded. Phey failed to turn up in court on Jan 7, 1980, and a warrant of arrest was issued on the same day. His two sureties lost S$95,000 of their bail bonds as a result.

    Investigations revealed Phey had left Singapore for Kuala Lumpur by train on Dec 31, 1979, and proceeded to Bangkok where he disappeared. He surrendered at the Singapore Embassy in Bangkok on Monday, and officers from Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau accompanied him back to the Republic on the same day.

    State Courts heard that the charges still stand and investigations will resume. Additional charges may also be tendered.

    When the charges were re-read to Phey before the State Courts on Wednesday, the accused said to District Judge Eddy Tham that “if my memory still does not fail me, I don’t think the money was transferred to my personal account”. Phey also had to ask the court interpreter to read the charges to him slowly as he said he was hard of hearing.

    There will be no bail, and Phey will be remanded pending further investigation.

    Phey is scheduled to appear in court again on Jul 23 at 2.15pm.

    For the charges, Phey faces a prescribed punishment of up to seven years’ jail for criminal breach of trust by a public servant, and is liable to a fine.

    For the Trades Union Act charges, Phey faces a prescribed punishment of a fine up to S$1,000 unless the offences warrant another form of punishment under the act.

    “ZERO TOLERANCE FOR CORRUPTION”

    In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that a “clean and non-corrupt system” has been maintained in Singapore for fifty years “because we have zero tolerance for corruption”.

    “We will not allow any cover up, even when it is awkward or embarrassing for the Government,” added Mr Lee.

    We have maintained a clean and non-corrupt system in Singapore for half a century because we have zero tolerance for…

    Posted by Lee Hsien Loong on Wednesday, June 24, 2015

    In response to media queries, Mr Lee said: “He has been charged in court, and the law will have to take its course.”

    “This will bring closure to a long outstanding case involving a person who was holding public office as an MP and a senior union leader,” he added.

    NTUC acknowledged Phey’s surrender to the authorities. “We must now let the law take its course,” the labour movement said in a statement.

    Phey was general secretary of multiple trade unions including the Singapore Industrial Labour Organisation (SILO) and the Pioneer Industries Employees Union (PIEU) from 1970 to 1970.

    He was also a People’s Action Party Member of Parliament for Boon Teck between 1972 and 1979.

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com