A judge said Iswaran’s high level of office meant he was more culpable, handing down a jail term longer than the six to seven ...
Iswaran, who entered politics in 1997 and joined Lee Hsien Loong’s cabinet in 2006, had pleaded guilty despite initially maintaining his innocence when legal proceedings began in January.
Former transport minister S Iswaran pleaded guilty to four charges of obtaining valuable gifts as a public servant and one ...
Most of the charges against Iswaran have been levelled with a rarely used criminal law that states it is an offence for public servants to accept objects of value from figures they officially work ...
The long-awaited corruption trial of Singapore’s former transport minister is set to begin on Tuesday as the city-state ...
Ong, known as a 'risk taker' and 'shrewd businessman' with a penchant for closing deals, has also had brushes with ...
The case comes at a politically sensitive time as Prime Minister Lawrence Wong prepares to lead the ruling People’s Action Party in a general election after he took over from Lee Hsien Loong in May.
“I reject the charges and am innocent,” Iswaran wrote in a letter to then-Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on January 17, the day before he was charged. He later added through his lawyers that ...
A Singaporean former minister was convicted on Tuesday of obstruction of justice and accepting illegal gifts, the public ...