{"id":50680,"date":"2026-05-08T03:12:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=50680"},"modified":"2026-05-08T03:12:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:12:40","slug":"2-men-charged-over-corruption-involving-improper-waste-disposal-in-tuas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=50680","title":{"rendered":"2 men charged over corruption involving improper waste disposal in Tuas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 A transportation company director allegedly took part in a corrupt arrangement to have 10 loads of chicken compost improperly disposed of in Tuas South Way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Singaporean Kee Yuet Ting, 40, who was from KYT Transport at the time, is accused of agreeing to give Hossain Toufik a bribe of $50 for every lorry load of the waste.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Hossain, 34, who is a Bangladeshi, was then a site supervisor at a company called Koh Civil Engineering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He is accused of agreeing to the bribe in exchange for Kee arranging the improper disposal of the chicken compost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">On May 7, the men were each handed a graft charge for the offences said to have been committed around June 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Court documents did not mention if any waste was disposed of in Tuas South Way in the end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Kee\u2019s case will be mentioned again in court on May 28, while Hossain is expected to plead guilty on June 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">For graft, an offender can be jailed for up to five years, fined up to $100,000 or both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/2-men-charged-with-corruption-involving-improper-waste-disposal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A transportation company director allegedly took part in a corrupt arrangement to have 10 loads of chicken compost improperly disposed of in Tuas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}