The director of two engineering companies made Central Provident Fund (CPF) contributions totalling $4,736 to a Sats employee even though the latter was not working for his firms. Court documents stated that Lim Ban Hock, 58, who was then the director of TK Engineering, did so to help Leong Poh Keong, also known as “Kelvin”, obtain a housing loan from HDB. Deputy Public Prosecutor Bryan Wong said that at the time of the offences, Leong was a member of Sats’ tender evaluation committee.
The court heard that Lim had given the $4,736 as bribes to Leong to advance TK Engineering’s business interest with Sats – the main ground-handling and in-flight catering service provider at Changi Airport. The prosecution said that in a separate incident, Lim also gave Leong a bribe of $2,000 in the form of a loan and Leong has not returned the money. On Jan 8, Lim, who was also the director of a firm called Env-Pro Tech Engineering at the time of the offences, pleaded guilty to a graft charge involving $4,736.A second graft charge linked to $2,000 and one count of cheating HDB will be considered during his sentencing in February. In December 2022, Leong, then 37, who is no longer working as a training, quality and projects executive at Sats Maintenance Centre (SMC),Lim and Leong got to know each other around 2019 and the two Singaporean men started going out for drinks soon after. The DPP said that during one of their drinking sessions between 2019 and 2020, Leong asked Lim for a loan of between $3,000 and $4,000, claiming that his Vietnamese girlfriend’s son had suffered a kidney failure and needed dialysis treatment.Some time in June 2020, Leong wanted to buy a four-room HDB flat worth around $445,000, but he could not obtain bank loans to finance the unit as his credit score was too low. He then decided to finance the flat with a housing loan from HD
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