Tycoon Ong Beng Seng convicted in corruption case

A Singapore -based billionaire hotel businessman has argued Claimed for an allegation related to a rare corruption scam that surprised the country last year.

Ong Beng Seng has admitted to removing the obstacle in justice by helping former-transport minister Subramanian Ishveran cover the evidence, while he was being investigated for corruption.

Ong was accused of giving expensive gifts, in which Formula 1 Grand Prix tickets and a ride on a private jet, when they were engaged in official business.

In Singapore, ministers cannot keep gifts unless they pay the market value of the gift, and they have to declare anything from the people they have with business behavior.

Last October, while sentenced to Ishwaran, the court heard that Ishwaran requested him for a business class flight for Doha when he came to know that he was being investigated.

The judge said that he worked with discussions and predetermines to avoid investigation.

On Monday, Ong on Monday convicted the Singapore Grand Prix for a flight ticket from Doha to Singapore.

Ongs have to face a prison of up to two years to eliminate a public servant in receiving gifts, while the maximum jail term to obstruct justice is seven years.

The 79 -year -old is also accused of abolishing Iswaran to receive all the spending trips for Doha, saying that S is said to be around 20,850 ($ 16,188; £ 12,194).

Both people were arrested in July 2023 and the charge sheet showed that Ishwaran was given more gifts than S $ 403,000 ($ 311,882; £ 234,586), more than hotel stay, musical and grand pricks tickets.

At the time of crime, Istavaran was in the main negotiator on the government’s F1 Steering Committee and F1 on business matters.

Ong helped to bring F1 Grand Prix to Singapore and his company Hotel Properties Limited (HPL) has brands like Four Seasons and Marriott.

Singapore MPs are the highest payments in the world, in which the leaders have justified the beautiful salary, saying that it competes with corruption.

Born in 1946 in Malaysia, Ong moved to Singapore as a child and established a hotel and property company in the 1980s.

The oong has a rare bone marrow cancer, and the court first allowed him to travel abroad for medical and work purposes.

Hotel Properties Limited first said in April that Ong would step down as its managing director as “managing his medical conditions”.