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SINGAPORE \u2013 The director of a transport company was jailed after he tried to bribe a man so he could illegally dump 10 lorry loads of chicken compost<\/span><\/a> in Tuas.<\/p>\n Kee Yuet Ting, 40, director of KYT Transport, was sentenced to five days\u2019 jail on Oct 15 after he pleaded guilty to a corruption charge.<\/p>\n His company arranges for the transportation of soil and compost via lorry delivery.<\/p>\n On June 21, 2024, he collected chicken compost from two egg farms and had tried offering it to a vegetable farm.<\/p>\n But when that farm said it did not need the compost, Kee drove around Tuas looking for a place to dispose of it.<\/p>\n He found a site used as a storage area for construction materials for a National Environment Agency (NEA) waste management facility.<\/p>\n Kee offered the site manager $50 for each lorry load of extremely foul-smelling chicken compost he could illegally dispose of there.<\/p>\n The manager had initially rejected the offer as he knew it was illegal, but eventually agreed after repeated requests by Kee.<\/p>\n The next day, on June 22, 2024, Kee arranged for six lorry loads of the chicken compost to be dumped there.<\/p>\n The site manager had used an excavator to dig a pit for the material, and this was later covered with fresh sand.<\/p>\n On June 23, 2024, Kee arranged for another four lorries of chicken compost to be dumped there.<\/p>\n But as the third lorry load was being dumped, the engineering company that leased the site found out about the unauthorised dumping.<\/p>\n The site manager contacted Kee, who stopped the fourth lorry\u2019s delivery and also sent several lorries back to collect the chicken compost.<\/p>\n NEA was informed and its officers inspected the area on June 26, 2024, but they could not collect any of the compost as it had already been removed by then.<\/p>\n Kee ultimately did not pay the site manager the agreed bribe, and that man was convicted and jailed in June<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n For corruption, Kee could have been jailed for up to five years and fined $100,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 The director of a transport company was jailed after he tried to bribe a man so he could illegally dump 10 lorry loads…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93243,"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-93242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93242","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=93242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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