SINGAPORE: A veteran Central Narcotics Bureau officer has been sentenced to 18 months’ jail for switching a man's urine sample with his own, in order to avoid having to deal with some paperwork.AdvertisementHe was one of three CNB officers charged in October last year. His co-accused are Staff Sergeant Abdul Rahman Kadir and Sergeant Muhammad Zuhairi Zainuri. Their cases are still pending.On Aug 15, 2018, the three officers were deployed to Woodlands Checkpoint.
While Muang and Rahman were discussing the matter, Zuhairi left the room and approached Hafiz. He told Hafiz that Muang did not appear to be cooperating in providing a urine sample. In his mitigation plea, Hafiz’s lawyer Amarick Gill wrote that Hafiz and Zuhairi did not want to deal with the paperwork to charge Muang for failing to provide a urine sample, so they tampered with it instead.As part of the plan, Hafiz provided his urine sample. He went to the toilet first, urinated inside a bottle, diluted it with water and left it behind a dustbin inside a cubicle.
The next day, Muang tried to enter Singapore again and was detained for suspected drug consumption by a different CNB team.A review of closed-circuit television footage found that Hafiz, Rahman and Zuhairi could have tampered with Muang’s urine sample and the matter was referred to the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau.
The two DPPs asked for an 18-month jail term, arguing that the offence was committed by a public officer while on duty and that the ploy was extensively planned.
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