Four men were charged in court on Jan. 31 for their alleged involvement in procurement fraud cases linked to the Our Tampines Hub (OTH) development project.
In one case, 67-year-old Seet Thong Kok was charged with forging quotations for building works requested by the People's Association (PA).
In another case, three men -- Vincent Chang Yew Teck, 63, Lee Kian Wee, 51, and Soh Chun Kang, 42 -- were charged with giving false information to a public servant during an audit of the OTH development project.
Chang and Lee were working for PA, a statutory board, at the time of their alleged offences. Their current employment status remains uncertain.
People involved
Seet was the facilities manager of a contractor that PA had engaged for minor building works.
The Straits Times consulted the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority to find that Seet is the owner of a terminated firm called Caspian Electrical Sub-Contractor.
Soh was a senior key account manager of a managing agent engaged by PA, according to a police statement on Jan. 31.
As for the PA employees, Chang was a deputy director of facilities management while Lee was a senior facilities manager of contracts.
Alleged forgery
Seet was charged with three counts of forgery.
The police said:
"He allegedly instigated the... contractor’s administrative staff to forge 18 quotations purportedly issued by [other firms], intending to deceive PA that the contractor’s quotation was the lowest-priced of three quotations for building works requested by PA."
He allegedly instructed someone to forge quotations from KJS Construction from Jan. 4 to Jun. 11, 2019, reported Shin Min Daily News.
He also allegedly told someone to prepare fake quotations for K&T Building Construction and SK Furniture Construction from Oct. 2 to Nov. 17, 2017.
Seet’s case has been adjourned to Feb. 28.
Allegedly gave false information to a public servant
Soh, Lee, and Chang were each charged with four counts of giving false information to a public servant.
The police said the trio had allegedly conspired to furnish backdated procurement documents to the Auditor-General’s Office (AGO) between December 2020 and February 2021, during the AGO’s audit of the OTH development project.
The AGO received a total of 142 supposedly backdated procurement documents, according to the police.
The trio's cases will be heard again in court on Mar. 4.
Top image via Google Maps