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SINGAPORE \u2013 The police will not be taking any further action in relation to SPH Media\u2019s alleged inflated circulation figures, after investigations found that there was no basis for any criminal charges.<\/p>\n
In a statement on April 29, the police said that the investigation looked into the employees and directors of the media organisation, both former and current.<\/p>\n
The offences that were being looked into included the falsification of accounts, as well as cheating.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe investigations showed that there was no basis for bringing any criminal charges. The police, in consultation with the Attorney-General\u2019s Chambers, will be taking no further action,\u201d said the statement.<\/p>\n
The statement comes after the media company filed a police report<\/span><\/a> on June 21, 2023, following recommendations made by the organisation\u2019s audit and risk committee in its review of inflated circulation numbers.<\/p>\n The figures were discovered in an audit done between September 2020 and March 2022, with law firm Allen & Gledhill finding that SPH had inflated its daily circulation numbers by 82,600 using data from August 2021.<\/p>\n This accounted for about 10 per cent of reported daily average circulation.<\/p>\n