Woman and her husband to be charged under OSA over leak of MOE, MSF statement on COVID-19 school closures

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SINGAPORE: A 38-year-old woman and her husband will be charged under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) on Wednesday (Apr 21) over the leak of a draft ...

SINGAPORE: A 38-year-old woman and her husband will be charged under the Official Secrets Act on Wednesday over the leak of a draft media statement containing information on school closures during Singapore's COVID-19 "circuit breaker" last year.

Investigations revealed that the woman allegedly took a photo of the statement on her computer screen and shared the image with her husband via WhatsApp on Apr 3 at about 9am.Her husband, who was not an authorised recipient of the statement, allegedly shared the image with his friends.The woman also allegedly took photos of a list of essential services that would continue operating during the circuit breaker and sent them to her husband at his request.

"Sixteen others who had wrongfully received and further communicated the information downstream will be administered with written advisories for wrongful communication of information under the Official Secrets Act," said SPF.

 

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Of far more significance is why the Singapore government consider Covid19 numbers 'secret'.

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