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SINGAPORE – An Immigration and Checkpoint Authority (ICA) customer service officer and his daughter received bribes totaling $ 1,500 from a Malaysian woman who wanted the process of applying for permanent residence to be expedited (PR ) from Singapore.
The mother, Lucy Teo, 50, was sentenced Tuesday (October 27) to 18 weeks in jail.
He pleaded guilty on Monday to one count of corruption and five counts of unauthorized computer data access at the ICA building on Kallang Road.
A district court heard that ICA suspended her on December 19, 2018.
His daughter, Sharon Loo Wai Woon, 29, who worked as a sales consultant for a firm called Immigration Solutions Singapore (ISS), was sentenced to six weeks in jail after admitting to a corruption charge.
You must also pay a fine of $ 1,500, which is the amount of bribes accepted.
The two Singaporean women had worked together to accept bribes from 25-year-old Fenny Tey Hui Nee, who became the PR of Singapore on November 9, 2018. She was sentenced to four weeks in jail in June for her role in the crimes.
Assistant Prosecutors Ben Tan and Eric Hu stated in court documents that Tey had inquired about ISS immigration consulting services in July 2017 because she wanted to become a Singaporean PR.
Loo told him that it would cost $ 5,000 to hire the company’s services.
They decided not to hire his services because he considered that the rate was too high. She later asked if Loo could help her in a personal capacity.
Loo spoke to her mother in September 2017 and they decided to ask Tey for $ 1,500 in exchange for helping her with the PR application.
Later, Loo told Tey that her “cousin” could help her and Tey gave Teo $ 750 in cash on September 28 of that year. They gave him the remaining $ 750 the following month.
They went to the ICA building on October 13, 2017 and met Teo.
Prosecutors said: “Teo also gave Fenny a file with the documents needed to apply and helped her get a queue number before Fenny arrived so she didn’t have to wait long.”
“Teo also told Fenny that he would only need to pass the entire file to the ICA officer who is processing his application, which Fenny did.”
The court heard that after the ICA’s appointment, Tey “kept asking” Teo about the status of his public relations request.
Teo then used his account in ICA’s Central Identification and Registration Information System (Ciris) to check the progress of the application, although he was not authorized to do so.
His crimes came to light after he asked a colleague on October 23, 2018 what a particular status in the system meant and said he was checking the “public relations status” of a friend.
Teo’s superior, who was alerted, suspected that something was wrong, since that information could not be revealed to outsiders.
Subsequently, ICA conducted an audit on Teo’s Ciris account and found that he had conducted multiple unauthorized examinations involving other people.
In May 2018, he illegally used the portal to check the status of his brother-in-law’s colleague’s public relations request.
Four months later, she used it to obtain her husband’s passport number.
Teo was offered a $ 15,000 bond Tuesday, while his daughter’s bond was set at $ 5,000.
They were ordered to turn themselves in to state courts on November 2 to begin their jail terms.
For corruption, a criminal can be imprisoned for up to five years and fined up to $ 100,000.
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