Prison workshop supervisor, 4 inmates charged with smuggling sedatives into jail

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SINGAPORE — A supervisor in a prison workshop was charged on Friday (Nov 18) for smuggling sedatives into jail for inmates.

Calvin Ang Wei Sheng, 39, who was a workshop supervisor at New Hope Food Industries at the time, faces five charges under the Prevention of Corruption Act.Ismail Musun Mollah, 56, faces two charges under the same Act while Irees Rahman, 49, Sidek Jamaludin, 42, and Muhammad Shaifullah Ab Latif, 36, face one charge each.Ang remains out on a S$5,000 bail while the four inmates are in remand.

This was in return for helping them purchase and smuggle Epam pills, a medicine with sedative effects used to treat insomnia and sleeping disorders, into Changi Prison. SPS said that it has in place security measures to screen all personnel and goods entering prison premises. These include walk-through and handheld metal detectors, and random frisk searches.

 

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