SINGAPORE: Former Transport Minister S Iswaran appeared at the High Court on Wednesday , represented by his lawyers from Davinder Singh Chambers.
On Jan 18, he was charged under the Prevention of Corruption Act, along with one charge of obstruction of justice and 24 charges of obtaining a valuable thing as a public servant. CNA reported his lawyer, Mr Davinder Singh, saying that Mr Iswaran was unaware that the gifts he received from businessmen Ong Beng Seng and Lum Kok Seng were “veiled gratification.”S Iswaran: Singapore's reopening will be an “evolutionary process rather than a revolutionary one”
“What the prosecution was and is today seeking is to push off the OBS trial and to use the dates that have been allocated for the OBS charges for the charges.
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