#Newsflash: AMKTC trial: Director entertained former town council GM with my debit card, says witness

Former Ang Mo Kio Town Council general manager Wong Chee Meng faces 55 counts of corruption. (Photo: Raj Nadarajan/TODAY)

SINGAPORE: A company director used a business associate’s debit card when taking a former town council general manager out for entertainment.

Chia Sin Lan had asked his associate, Mr Tay Eng Chuan, to apply for the card for him so that Chia’s family would not find out about his mistress and girlfriend.

Mr Tay revealed this to a district court on Friday (Nov 9), while refuting Chia’s previous statement that the funds for the entertainment were from the sale of scrap metal.

Also, Chia did not use the card for his mistress and girlfriend as he had told Mr Tay, but instead used it for expenses incurred when he took former Ang Mo Kio Town Council (AMKTC) general manager Victor Wong Chee Meng out.

Whenever Chia took Wong out to karaoke lounges and nightclubs, paid for meals or other such entertainment, he would use the debit card and charge it to Tay Eng Khuan General Contractors, which was one of Mr Tay's companies.

Mr Tay was the subcontractor for Chia's company 19-NS2 Enterprise, which performed repair and redecoration works for AMKTC.

Chia faces 54 corruption charges for allegedly providing a "steady stream" of some S$107,000 in gratification to Wong in return for contracts with the town council.

Mr Tay told the court on his third day on the stand that instead of reimbursing him, Chia instructed him to claim the funds used to entertain Wong from the proceeds of another project.


Source from Channel News Asia