ICA officer charged with taking bribe from Malaysian national to expedite PR application

SINGAPORE: An Immigration and Checkpoints Authority customer service officer was charged on Thursday with receiving bribes from a Malaysian national applying to be a Singapore permanent resident .

The 49-year-old officer, Lucy Teo, was charged with two counts of engaging in a conspiracy with another woman Sharon Loo Wai Woon to corruptly obtain S$1,500 from Malaysian national Fenny Tey Hui Nee, the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau and the police said in a joint release.

Loo, 28, was also charged with two counts of engaging in a conspiracy with Teo to corruptly obtain the money from Tey. Tey was charged with two counts of bribing Teo with a total of S$1,500 as an inducement to expedite her PR application.Anyone convicted of a corruption offence can be fined up to S$100,000, jailed for up to five years, or both.

Anyone who knowingly causes a computer to perform any function for the purpose of securing access without authority to any programme or data held in any computer can be fined up to S$5,000, jailed for up to two years, or both.

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