CNB officer gets 1½ years' jail for swopping samples to help drug offender pass urine test

SINGAPORE - A Central Narcotics Bureau officer has been slapped with an 18-month jail term for switching urine samples at Woodlands Checkpoint to let a suspect off the hook so that he could avoid the paperwork to charge the man with a drug offence.

Subsequent investigations have since revealed that Maung had indeed taken drugs prior to attempting to enter Singapore. The court heard that the officers did so because they knew the process to get a sample from Maung could take some time, and that switching his urine sample with a clean sample could expedite the processing of his departure from the CNB office with no further action on their part.

When Mohamed Hafiz brought Maung to the toilet on the pretext of collecting his urine sample, he informed Maung exactly which cubicle to enter and where to find the clean urine sample. He also gave Maung detailed instructions on what to do in order to pass the sample off as his own. A review of CCTV footage later revealed that the officers could have tampered with Maung's urine sample, and the matter was referred to the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau .

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