Four jailed for bribery over waterworks projects
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Three senior executives of two construction companies and a director of an engineering company were sent to jail for offering and accepting huge bribes respectively in relation to waterworks projects.
The two construction companies were awarded three waterworks projects by the Water Supplies Department. After securing the project, the construction companies appointed the engineering company as the authorised supplier of pipeline materials.
To remain favourably disposed towards the engineering company, a commercial manager, a project manager and a planning engineer of the construction companies accepted over $150,000 in bribes from its director.
The bribe payments were calculated at the rate of about 1.5% of the total amount of purchase orders issued to the engineering company.
Subsequently, the four were laid with eight bribery charges. After being convicted of the charges, the three senior executives of the construction companies were sentenced to jail terms ranging from four to 16 months, while the director of the engineering company was jailed for 18 months.
The judge remarked that he had to mete out custodial sentences to the defendants taking into account precedents.
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