SINGAPORE: Three Singaporean men, including a Huawei account director and an engineer at Singapore’s health tech agency, were charged with corruption as well as offences that include cheating on Wednesday (Jan 22).
Their alleged offences revolve around giving or obtaining bribes as inducements to advance business interests.
Peng Ming, the Huawei employee, was given four charges of corruptly giving gratifications, of which three are amalgamated. He also faces one count of cheating.
Ng Kah Siang, an engineer at Integrated Health Systems Information (IHiS), is accused of attempting to obtain S$20,000 (US$14,700) in bribes from Peng in November 2021. He faces five counts of corruptly obtaining gratifications.
This was done as an inducement to advance Huawei’s business interests with IHiS, the charge read.
IHiS has since been rebranded as Synapxe. It is a subsidiary of MOH Holdings, a holding company of Singapore’s public healthcare institutions that sits under the Ministry of Health.
Ng, 37, also allegedly attempted to obtain gratification of 1 per cent of a vendor’s sales revenue and at least S$20,000 from a second vendor, as inducements to advance their business interests with IHiS, said the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB).
Peng, 39, is accused of deceiving Huawei into believing that Ng and his wife were directors of IHiS in February 2022. This was done to intentionally induce Huawei to approve a sponsored trip to Paris for the couple, the agency added.
Between Mar 11 and Mar 20, 2022, Peng and the third accused Chiang Chee Seng – a senior sales director at Nera Telecommunications – allegedly conspired to give Ng and his wife gratification in the form of the Paris trip, which was valued at about S$18,265.
This was done as an inducement to advance the business interests of Huawei and Nera with IHiS, CPIB said.
“On several occasions between 2020 to 2022, Peng had also allegedly corruptly given gratification of about S$300 for each occasion in the form of entertainment to an engineer employed with IHiS, as an inducement to advance the business interests of Huawei with IHiS,” the agency added.
Ng is also accused of attempting to obtain gratification of 1 per cent of Nera’s sales revenue from Chiang on another occasion to further advance the business interests of the communications solutions provider with IHiS.–CNA
