, with Wong admitting to receiving more than S$86,000 in bribes from Chia between December 2014 and September 2016.
The two companies were fined S$75,000 each for their roles, and Wong was ordered in November to pay a penalty of about S$23,000 by May 2020 for bribes, which included a car discount and entertainment expenses. Chief Justice Menon said the offence was fairly sophisticated and involved premeditation and a cultivation of Wong by Chia over a significant amount of time.Both men were"ultimately motivated by greed", said Chief Justice Menon, with Wong abusing his position as general manager of the town council.
"After all, a certain degree of proximity is almost inevitable in cases involving the cultivation of an agent. In that light, it seems perverse for the law to accord mitigating weight to a friendship which develops out of and in furtherance of their collaboration in a corrupt design." He said the prosecution could have chosen to defer the issue of any orders if Wong failed to pay his penalty, such as a default jail term or an order to enforce payment, and deal with it later.
The prosecution had pushed for the jail terms to be increased to 48 months for Wong and 44 months for Chia.
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