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Wed, Oct 14, 2020-13: 29h
UPDATED Wed, Oct 14, 2020 – 6:27 pm
Seven people, including an employee and three subcontractors from Keppel FELS, a wholly owned unit of Keppel Offshore & Marine, were charged in court Wednesday with offenses related to obtaining, accepting and rewarding between 2014 and 2017.
Alvin Lim Wee Lun, a 40-year-old shipyard manager at Keppel FELS, Goh Ngak Eng and Rajavikraman Jayapandian were charged with 46 counts of complicity in conspiring with each other to corruptly obtain S $ 879,900 in bonus from three company directors who are Keppel. FELS subcontractors, according to a statement issued by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Office (CPIB).
These subcontractors at the time of the incident were the director of Titan Offshore Equipment Pte Ltd, U Keh Choon, the director of Spectrama Marine & Industrial Supplies Pte Ltd, Stanley Goh Sheng Li, and the general director of Growa FE Pte Ltd, Fatkullah Tiap . It is alleged that the bonuses served as an incentive to further the business interests of these companies with Keppel FELS.
All three, U, Stanley Goh and Fatkullah, were charged Wednesday with corruptly giving gratuity through Goh for offenses punishable under Section 6 (b) of the Corruption Prevention Act, Chapter 241.
Titan’s U, a 50-year-old permanent resident of Singapore, was charged with seven counts of corruptly giving S $ 196,700 in gratuity to Goh, Lim and Rajavikraman, while Stanley Goh, 33, of Spectrama, was charged with 21 counts of corrupt donation S $ 190,900 for the three men. Fatkullah, 59, was charged with 18 counts of corruptly giving S $ 492,300 in gratuity to the trio.
In addition, Rajavikraman, 45, was also charged with three counts of corruptly obtaining S $ 7,000 in bonus from Goh as a reward for promoting a marine equipment manufacturer’s business interest with another company in the same line of business.
In addition to the three counts of giving Rajavikraman corrupt gratuity, Goh, 54, was also charged with ten counts of giving S $ 15,100 in gratuity to Ong Tun Chai as a reward for having prepared fictitious invoices on a logistics company letterhead. .
In turn, Ong, 48, was charged with 10 counts of corrupt acceptance of Goh’s gratification, and 20 counts of deliberate forgery and with intent to defraud documents belonging to a logistics company that were issued to Growa and Titan. These were made to reflect the services requested by Growa and Titan when they were not, according to the CPIB statement.
All the accused are Singaporean except U.
“Singapore takes a strict zero-tolerance approach to corruption. Anyone convicted of a corruption offense can face a fine of up to S $ 100,000 or a prison term of up to five years or both,” the CPIB said.
The anti-corruption agency reminded companies to install robust procurement and internal audit procedures to avoid being victims of corrupt acts by employees.
Separately, a Keppel FELS spokesperson said: “We are aware that CPIB is accusing a former Keppel FELS facilities manager, Alvin Lim, of corruption. He was fired from the company in 2019 for violating the Keppel Code of Conduct. .
“We have extended our full cooperation to the authorities and we cannot comment further as legal proceedings are ongoing.”
The spokesperson added: “We take a serious view of any corrupt act and will not tolerate any employee conduct that is illegal. All Keppel Group employees must comply with the Keppel Code of Conduct, which prohibits, among others, bribery and corruption.”
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