SINGAPORE: The former chief of the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), Peter Lim Sin Pang, has been charged with 10 counts of corruption.
The court on Wednesday heard that the former SCDF commissioner allegedly obtained sexual gratification from three women between May 2010 and November 2011.
From a hotel in Paris to car parks in various parts of Singapore and apartments in Clementi and Tanjong Rhu, these were where Lim, 52, allegedly had sex with three women - two vendors and a potential vendor.
Lim allegedly had oral sex from Lee Wei Hoon, a director of Singapore Radiation Centre and Pang Chor Mui, a general manager at Nimrod Engineering.
Lim is also accused of having sex on seven occasions with Esther Goh Tok Mui, a business development director at NCS Private Limited.
In return, Lim would show favour to the companies where the women are working in, for IT-related tenders called by the SCDF.
Lim, who is married, was arrested by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) in January this year and removed from his post in the same month.
He is now out on a S$10,000 bail.
His passport has also been surrendered to the CPIB.
Dressed in a blue long-sleeved shirt, Lim arrived at the Subordinate Courts in a black car on Wednesday.
He appeared worried as the charges were read out in court, and declined comment when approached by the media.
A couple, who accompanied Lim as he walked out of court, told MediaCorp that they were there to give Lim moral support.
Lim will be back in court on July 5.
If convicted, he could be jailed up to five years and fined S$100,000 for each charge.
The other high-ranking civil servant embroiled in the same case is Ng Boon Gay, former director of the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB).
Ng, who has also been removed from his post, was arrested about two weeks before Lim.
He has yet to be charged.
Source: Channelnewasia.com
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