Man who worked with another to bribe MOH agency employee with $18k trip jailed

Two senior executives of different telecommunications companies worked together to give a bribe in the form of a Paris trip worth more than $18,000 to an employee of an agency under the Ministry of Health (MOH).

- Shaffiq Alkhatib

Court documents stated that Chiang Chee Seng, 50, was a senior sales director at Nera Telecommunications when he conspired with Peng Ming, 39, then an account director at Huawei International.

Deputy public prosecutors Eugene Phua and Andre Ong told the court that the pair worked together to bribe Ng Kah Siang, 37, who was then an engineer at Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS), a wholly owned subsidiary of MOH Holdings.

The DPPs also said that Chiang and Peng committed the offence to advance the business interests of Huawei and Nera with IHiS, now known as Synapxe.

Chiang was sentenced to 11 weeks' jail on July 21 after he pleaded guilty to a graft charge.

The cases involving Peng and Ng, also known as Ronnie, are still pending. All three men are Singaporeans.

The DPPs said Chiang, who was an account manager at Huawei between July 2016 and October 2018, worked with Peng to introduce Huawei to public healthcare institutions in Singapore.