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A former manager at oil giant BP and a businessman were each sentenced to 4½ years jail yesterday for their roles in a graft case involving close to US$4 million (S$5.3 million).
Clarence Chang Peng Hong, 56, had accepted bribes from businessman Koh Seng Lee, 59, on 19 occasions between July 2006 and July 2010 in exchange for advancing the business interests of Koh s company with BP.
Koh had also corruptly agreed to pay $500,000 to a pre-school - Mindchamps Pre-school @ City Square - of which Chang s wife was a director.
They were found guilty of 20 corruption charges each last year after a trial spanning more than two years.
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SINGAPORE: A former director of BP Singapore was jailed for 54 months and ordered to pay a penalty of about S$6.22 million on Tuesday (May 11) for taking bribes.
Clarence Chang Peng Hong had suggested that Koh Seng Lee set up Pacific Prime Trading, a petroleum and petroleum products wholesaler, to be a trading counterpart of BP.
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This was on the understanding that Chang would advance the business interest of (Pacific Prime Trading) with BP and would therefore be entitled to payments in return , said the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) in a press release.
Singapore: Ex-BP Employee Jailed on Graft Charges
by Ship & Bunker News Team
Tuesday May 11, 2021
BP s former eastern reginoal director for marine fuels,
Clarence Chang Peng Hong, has been given a jail sentence for corruption by a
Singapore court.
Pacific Prime Trading (PPT), whose executive director,
Koh Seng Lee, was also jailed. The defendants were found guilty of corruption last year following a lengthy trial, according to local news provider the Straits Times. PPT was set up by the two former executives as a vehicle for advancing their interests with the oil major. Chang took nearly
$4 million in bribes from Koh over a period of four years up to 2010. Both defendants have filed appeals against their convictions, the report said.