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Former Singaporean official sentenced to five and a half years in jail for soliciting bribes

By Ben Lucas ( September 3, 2021, 06:08 GMT | Insight) -- A former Singaporean public official at the heart of a major bribery scheme was sentenced to five and a half years in prison yesterday and ordered to pay a S$1.16 million ($860,000) fine. Henry Foo Yung Thye, a former official at the Land Transport Authority solicited “loans” from employees at companies such as Singapore-listed Tiong Seng Group and China Railway Tunnel Group’s Singapore unit to advance the companies' interests. A former Singaporean public official at the heart of a major bribery scheme was sentenced to five and a half years in prison yesterday and ordered to pay a S$1.16 million ($860,000) fine, Singapore’s anti-corruption agency said in a statement....

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