SINGAPORE - A former general manager of Ang Mo Kio Town Council , who was originally sentenced to 27 months' jail for corruption, will have to spend a longer time in prison after his jail term was upped to three years and three months on Thursday .
Chia is the director of two companies - 19-ANC Enterprise and 19-NS2 Enterprise - which carried out works for town councils. In his decision, the Chief Justice also set out a sentencing framework for certain corruption offences.In May, prosecutors argued for four years' jail for Wong, and three years and eight months in jail for Chia.Wong was AMKTC's general manager from 2013 to 2016. In September 2016, the town council received a complaint about the way he handled contracts.
In March last year, Wong and Chia each pleaded guilty to three corruption charges part-way through a trial that started in September 2018.
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