Singapore, Iswaran
Former Singapore Cabinet minister starts 1-year sentence for receiving illegal gifts
Former Transport Minister S. Iswaran said it was important to him that prosecutors reduced two corruption charges to charges of receiving illegal gifts at the start of the trial last month. Iswaran had pleaded guilty to one count of obstructing justice and four of accepting gifts from two businessmen with whom he had official business.
Singapore ex-minister Iswaran won’t fight 12-month sentence for corruption, heads to prison today
Former Singapore transport minister S Iswaran said in a statement on Facebook that he will not appeal the one-year prison sentence handed out to him after pleading guilty to five charges. In the statement,
Ex-Singapore Minister Iswaran accepts charges, begins 12-month jail term
S Iswaran has was accused of accepting gift worth $306,000 from Malaysian billionaire Ong Beng Seng and businessman David Lum
Singapore's disgraced former minister jailed for taking gifts
Singapore's former transport minister has been sentenced to 12 months jail over accepting gifts including F1 tickets, English Premier League tickets, and a private jet ride.
Singapore Ex-Minister Says Will Not Appeal Court Sentence
Singapore ex-minister S. Iswaran will not be appealing the 12-month prison sentence handed to him for obtaining valuable items as a public servant and obstruction of justice.
Ex-Singapore minister won’t appeal sentence, begins jail term today
Singapore’s former transport minister S Iswaran said he would not be appealing his 12-month jail term, which starts today, after he was convicted of four counts of receiving gifts and one of obstructing justice.
Singapore Ex-Minister Heading to Prison After Landmark Case
S. Iswaran is set to hand himself into a Singapore court to become the first ex-cabinet minister to be jailed in almost half a century, in a scandal that has riveted a city that prides itself on good governance.
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