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SINGAPORE – A deputy director of the Singapore Football Association (FAS) and his wife allegedly worked together to cheat the sports body out of more than $ 600,000 in total between 2016 and 2018.
Rikram Jit Singh Randhir Singh, 40, was in charge of business and business development at FAS, while his wife Asya Kirin Kames, 33, was the director of a company called All Resource Network (ARN) that dealt with articles sports.
Each of them was charged with 45 counts of cheating on Wednesday (December 9).
In response to inquiries from The Straits Times, FAS said it had fired Singh on January 7 of last year. “We have expanded our full cooperation with the authorities and cannot comment as legal proceedings are ongoing,” added a spokesperson.
Singh and Asya are charged with committing the crimes with two other men, Shankar Suppiah, 43, and Pallaniappan Ravindran, 47, who were also charged on Wednesday.
Shankar, who was also a director of ARN, faces 37 counts of cheating, while Pallaniappan, director of event organizer Myriad Sports & Events (MSE), was slapped with 15.
In a statement, the Corrupt Practices Investigation Office (CPIB) said the ARN invoices were sent to FAS as part of the alleged conspiracy.
These invoices allegedly concealed Singh’s alleged involvement with ARN.
As a result, FAS is said to have been dishonestly induced to award jobs to ARN, paying it a total of more than $ 180,000 between 2017 and 2018.
The couple had also allegedly conspired with Shankar and Pallaniappan to send MSE quotes to FAS.
CPIB added: “(These) dishonestly concealed the alleged facts that the work on such MSE quotes would be carried out by ARN instead of MSE, and of (Singh’s) stake in ARN.”
As a result, FAS is said to have been dishonestly induced to award jobs to MSE, paying it more than $ 450,000 in total between 2016 and 2018.
The cases involving the four Singaporeans were postponed until January 13 next year.
For each count of cheating, an offender can be jailed for up to 10 years and fined.
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