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SINGAPORE – A man who tried to bribe a police officer to let him escape after he was caught twice improperly masked during the COVID-19 circuit breaker period was sentenced to four weeks in jail on Friday (October 23) .
Chen Long, 28, had offered a police officer $ 50 while being interviewed in a room at the Boon Lay MRT station. The Chinese citizen, who has a work permit, pleaded guilty to corruption.
On May 7, a patrol team consisting of four police officers from the Public Transportation Security Command spotted Chen in the area near the smoking corner of the Boon Lay MRT station with his mask lowered and covering the area. neck and chin only.
Chen had finished working at the California Laundry and was smoking a cigarette and drinking from a beer can.
Then the patrol team approached Chen and gestured for him to put on the mask properly. Chen obeyed and the patrol team moved on.
About 10 minutes later, the patrol team passed the smoking corner again and saw Chen talking on his mobile phone with his mask down.
The patrol team decided to take Chen to a room at the MRT station to interview him. In the middle of the interview, after asking the police officer how long the interview would last, Chen opened his wallet, showed the money in his wallet to the officer, and offered him $ 50 with the intention of bribing the officer to let him out. . The acts were captured with the team’s body camera.
Realizing that Chen was trying to bribe him, the officer immediately signaled to Chen. He then asked Chen in Mandarin if the latter admitted to trying to bribe him. Chen replied “yes”.
The officer told Chen that bribery was a serious crime in Singapore, and Chen was silent. Then another police officer interviewed Chen asked him what he was going to do with the $ 50 bill. Chen replied that he wanted the officer and his team to take the money to buy some drinks and stop monitoring him.
For the crime of not wearing a mask, Chen received a $ 300 composition notice.
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