Singapore: Patrick Lee, the former group financial controller of Singapore Technologies Marine, has been fined for his role in falsifying documents in a conspiracy with other employees to claim entertainment expenses when none was incurred between 2004 and 2007.
Lee pleaded guilty to a total of seven charges under section 477A of the Penal Code, and was given a fine of S$210,000 ($155.4k) in default of a 21 week prison sentence.
A total of seven former ST Marine employees have been charged with corruption offences related to the granting of ship repair contracts, that were subsequently accounted for as a series of petty cash claims for entertainment expenses.
The Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau started investigations on certain transactions involving former and current employees of ST Marine in 2011.