SINGAPORE – Nine men, including seven accused of graft, were handed 23 charges in total involving more than $520,000, linked to two former employees of a gases solutions company called Air Liquide Singapore (ALSG).
They are accused of committing their offences between 2017 and 2022.
Suriamoorthy Subakaran, 47, who was a project manager at Bharath Electrical Engineering at the time of the alleged offences, was handed the most charges – six.
He is accused of offences including engaging in a conspiracy with Sundarraj Manikandan, then a project engineer at ALSG, to falsify invoices. Sundarraj also operated a company called Voltz Engineering Works, said the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB).
On two separate occasions between June and August 2021, the pair allegedly worked together to falsify two invoices amounting to around $130,000 as payments to Voltz for jobs purportedly provided by Bharath Electrical. In reality, these works were not performed.
“These payments represented benefits from criminal conduct of another individual, and they were allegedly found to be in Suriamoorthy’s possession,” CPIB said.
During the same period, Suriamoorthy also allegedly conspired with Vedaiyan Raja Mohan, 46, to falsify two invoices amounting to $113,200 as payments to Bharath Electrical for works purportedly provided by Zhan Tech which were, in fact, never performed.
