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| Indonesia searches for missing boat people Posted: [unable to retrieve full-text content]CIDAUN: Rescuers searched the seas off Indonesia's Java island for possibly dozens of asylum-seekers missing after their Australia-bound boat sank, leaving at least three dead, with 157 saved, an official said. |
| Posted: A COURT has charged a senior anti-corruption official with siphoning off more than a million dollars of government money to fund his casino gambling habit. Edwin Yeo Seow Hiong, 39, an assistant director at the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB), is accused of misappropriating S$1.76mil (RM4.4mil) worth of government funds. Yeo faces additional charges under Singapore's tough anti-corruption laws for using the money to gamble at a casino and forgery after he allegedly duplicated a receipt voucher worth S$370,755 (RM926,887.50). Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean, who is also the minister in charge of the civil service, expressed concern that a senior anti-corruption officer was charged with fraud. He said the case, the latest involving a senior civil servant, had prompted a review of supervisory procedures in government agencies. "This case is particularly serious because it involved a senior officer in the CPIB, which is entrusted with maintaining the integrity of the system," Teo said in a statement. "As there has been a number of high-profile cases recently, the public is understandably concerned about whether this reflects systemic issues in the public service." One of the recent high-profile cases involved Peter Lim, former head of the country's civil defence force, who is currently serving a six-month jail term for corruption. Lim was convicted on May 31 this year for receiving oral sex from a female executive of a defence supplier in return for business favours. A former head of the Singapore police's drug enforcement unit, Ng Boon Gay, had also been charged in a separate sex-for-favours case but was acquitted. Large-scale graft cases remain rare in Singapore, a thriving business hub and financial centre, and the government has jealously guarded its reputation as among the least corrupt in the world. — AFP |
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