SINGAPORE, Wednesday 29 September 2010 (AFP) - A senior civil servant with a penchant for Italian supercars has been arrested for defrauding the government of about 12 million Singapore dollars (9.09 million US), officials said.Koh Seah Wee, 40, deputy director at the information technology department of the Singapore Land Authority (SLA), allegedly raised fake invoices for non-existent projects and pocketed the money.
Assets including a Lamborghini and a Ferrari, along with cash, have been recovered from Koh and a colleague, 37-year-old Christopher Lim Chai Meng, who is also under investigation. Full story
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