PUB Deputy Chief-Executive Go To Jail
Saturday, 25th November 1995
Suspended PUB Deputy CEO, Choy Hon Tim (age 58), was thrown into the jail for 14 years for receiving over $13-million of bribes paid. Senior District Judge Richard Magnus passed the maximum sentence, following the prosecutor's recommendations. The prosecutor said choy, as a high-profile civil servant, had disgraced the administration which had entrusted him to serve the public. Choy had pleaded guilty yesterday to five counts of criminal conspiracy and corruption.
He managed to collect the bribes from electrical cable supply companies. The money through a former PUB clerk, Mr. Lee Peng Siong, who had been an Australian citizen since 1983. Lee who was a consultant to PUB paid the money for pre-received information on the PUB tenders. Japan's Marubeni and Tomen, two Singapore units of Britain's BICC, Pirelli of Italy and three subsidiaries, and Germany's Siemens AG and Siemens Ltd. were banned from supplying material to Singapore for 5 years.