After listening to Pritam Singh's speech last night during Hougang's 2012 By-Election Rally, I did abit of homework on past corruption within the PAP. I found a few more than what he outlined. Listed below are the known PAP members of parliament or ministers who have been exposed and charged for criminal corruption. Please let me know if you have more to contribute,I do any necessary updates.
Please note that this is a historical fact sheet. I am not saying PAP is corrupt now, neither am I saying that there are corrupt ministers or MPs within PAP currently. The point of this is to note that in the history of PAP, it has never been whiter then white.
Tan Kia Gan
Tan Kia Gan, then Minister for National Development, was investigated in August 1966 for attempting to help his close businessman friend Lim Tjin Hauw and his son William Lim to clinch the sale of Boeing aircraft to Malaysian Airways. He also acted as an intermediary for his brother-in-law in the sale of a tin mine to Lim. For this, he was given 70,000 shares worth $1 each. As the witnesses did not want to implicate him, Tan Kia Gan was administratively stripped of all his public appointments by the Government.
Phey Yew Kok
PAP Member of Parliament for Boon Teck GRC for 2 terms, voted in during 1972 and 1976 Singapore parliamentary elections. He was then charged with venality (corruption) in 1980. He disappeared into thin air and is not found until today
Wee Toon Boon
Wee Toon Boon, then Minster of State for Environment, was charged for corruption involving $839,023 in April 1975. Investigation revealed that Wee was involved with a developer Lauw Tjin Ho, then Chairman of Lauw and Sons Pte Ltd. He used his ministerial status to make representation to civil servants on behalf of Lauw. In return, he was rewarded with a bunglow, worth $532,000, galvanised roofing for his home worth $3,500, free air tickets for him and his family to Indonesia and bank overdrafts totalling $300,000 to speculate in shares. He was convicted and sentenced to 4 1/2 years' imprisonment and ordered to pay a penalty of $7,023. His jail sentence was reduced to 18 months after he successfully appealed against one of the 5 charges.
Teh Cheang Wan
Teh Cheang Wan, then Minister for National Development, was investigated in 1986 for accepting 2 bribes totalling $1 million from Hock Tat Development Pte Ltd and Ho Yeow Koon of Keck Seng Pte Ltd in 1981 and 1982 respectively. Hock Tat Development had paid Teh a gratification of $500,000 after he helped the company to retain a piece of land that was earmarked for acquisition by the Government. Ho Yeow Koon had also given a gratification of $500,000 to Teh for helping to buy over a piece of State land for private development. Teh committed suicide before he could be formally charged in court. He maintained till the end that he was innocent. The amounts involved total about S$10,600.
Choo Wee Khiang
Choo Wee Khiang was a Former MP For Jalan Besar GRC & STTA Chief. He is also the uncle of Desmond Choo, PAP candidate for Hougang (2011/2012). In 1999, the 57-year-old was sentenced to two weeks' jail and fined S$10,000 for helping a family friend to use false invoices to cheat a finance company into granting an S$830,000 loan. The CPIB said that between 2002 and 2003, Luo Jie, whose work pass only permitted him to work for STTA, provided table tennis training to students of Fuhua Secondary School. But the school was unable to pay him for the training provided, which amounted to S$8,400. Investigations also revealed that between 2003 and 2004, Choo is believed to have accepted US$600 on two separate occasions from Shi Mei Sheng, who was then a STTA coach. This was allegedly his reward for approving the use of two different training facilities in China. The Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) said it received several anonymous complaints against Choo from 2005 to 2007 alleging that he had charged his personal airfares, expenses, phone bills to STTA and received gifts from Chinese coaches and players. The offences were allegedly committed during Choo's tenure as the president of the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA).
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