Woman nabbed for trying to bribe police officer
SINGAPORE — A woman who was being checked by police during an anti-vice operation last week tried to bribe an officer with S$10,000, and ended up getting arrested instead.
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Chan Wai Hoong and a team of officers from the Central Division were carrying out enforcement operations on Middle Road when the 42-year-old woman repeatedly offered ASP Chan the sum of money so that he would let her go.
The incident took place on April 14 at around 1.30pm. The officer rejected the bribe and arrested her for the act.
The case has been referred to the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau, said the police in a press statement yesterday, and the woman is also being investigated by the police for suspected involvement in vice activities under the provisions of the Women’s Charter.
Cases of police officers being offered bribes in the course of their work are not uncommon.
In July last year, a South Korean woman was sentenced to two months’ jail for attempting to bribe a police officer after she was arrested for an immigration offence. She made an offer of S$1,550 in exchange for her release from police custody.
In 2014, a 26-year-old woman was nabbed when she tried to bribe three police officers with some S$2,400 after she was caught during an anti-vice raid on a residential unit in Sembawang.
Bribing, or attempting to bribe, public officers is an offence in Singapore, and anyone convicted of such an act of corruption may be fined up to S$100,000 or jailed up to five years, or both.
