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SINGAPORE \u2013 Six employees of Hyundai Engineering & Construction were charged in court on June 12 over allegations that they accepted or attempted to obtain bribes concerning unsafe work acts.<\/p>\n
The employees, aged between 29 and 53, were charged with various offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Criminal Procedure Code.<\/p>\n
Shaheen, a 32-year-old Bangladeshi who goes by only one name, was handed 15 charges, the most among the six men.<\/p>\n
According to court documents, the Hyundai safety coordinator accepted or attempted to obtain bribes of about $6,200 from other safety coordinators employed by various subcontractors involved in a Labrador Villa Road project.<\/p>\n
Shaheen is said to have acted corruptly on multiple occasions between July 2023 and April 2024.<\/p>\n
Among other things, he allegedly accepted bribes for not issuing safety administrative charges for unsafe work acts, and for allowing a worker to re-enter the site to work after he was banned for committing an unsafe act at the site.<\/p>\n
Hyundai Engineering & Construction is the main contractor behind the Labrador Villa Road project, which features South-east Asia\u2019s largest underground substation to date \u2013 the area of four football fields \u2013 and a 34-storey commercial tower.<\/p>\n
The Labrador substation will serve the electricity needs of nearby Alexandra, Clementi, Keppel, Pasir Panjang and the Science Park district.<\/p>\n
The others charged were safety coordinators Biswas Uzzal, 42, Hossain Mithu Mohammad Arif, 33, Uddin Md Mesbah, 34; safety supervisor Biswas Pradip Chandra, 29, and safety manager Siow Hung Wee, 53.<\/p>\n
Siow is a Singaporean, while the others are Bangladeshi nationals.<\/p>\n
Uzzal, Mithu, Pradip and Uddin are accused of accepting bribes of around $2,700 in total from other safety coordinators between 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n
Siow allegedly engaged in a conspiracy with Uzzal to accept bribes of $900 in total from other safety coordinators over four occasions between June 2023 and February 2024.<\/p>\n
The bribes were an inducement not to issue safety administrative charges.<\/p>\n
On two other occasions, within the same period, Siow is said to have conspired with Mithu to accept bribes of $1,000 in total from safety coordinators.<\/p>\n
The bribes were inducement to allow a worker to re-enter the site to work after he was banned for committing an unsafe work act.<\/p>\n
Siow is said to have engaged in a conspiracy with Uzzal and Mithu in October 2023 to accept a bribe of $500 from a safety coordinator.<\/p>\n
Over three occasions between September and December 2023, Uzzal allegedly engaged in a conspiracy with Pradip to accept a total of $650 in bribes from safety coordinators.<\/p>\n
In addition, Uzzal is accused of engaging in a conspiracy with Mithu and Pradip to accept bribes of $700 in total on two occasions in October 2023.<\/p>\n
The cases of all six men will be heard again in July.<\/p>\n
Those convicted of corruption can be fined up to $100,000, jailed for up to five years, or both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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