Former Singapore Central Narcotics Bureau director Ng Boon Gay was charged with four counts of corruption for obtaining sexual favors from a female information technology executive seeking contracts from the agency.
The charges come less than a week after former Singapore Civil Defence Force commissioner Peter Benedict Lim Sin Pang faced similar charges involving three women seeking contracts for their companies. Singapore reviewed its public sector financial procedures after uncovering a S$12.5 million ($9.7 million) fraud in September 2010 by two former land authority workers in an incident prosecutors said severely shook public confidence in the internal controls at government agencies. Full story
