The NGO MAGNAT BENG Seng guilty in the corruption case

A billionaire hotelier based in Singapore pleaded Guilty of an accusation linked to a rare corruption scandal that shocked the country last year.

NGO Beng Seng admitted that it had encouraged the obstruction of justice by helping the former Minister of Transport, Subramaniam Iswaran, to cover the evidence when he was the subject of an investigation for corruption.

NGO had been accused of having offered expensive gifts, including tickets for the Formula 1 Grand Prix and a turn on a private jet in Iswaran when they were engaged in official cases.

The ministers of Singapore cannot keep gifts unless they pay the market value of the gift to the government, and they must declare everything they receive from people with whom they have trade relations.

During the conviction of Iswaran last October, the court learned that Iswaran had asked the bill the bill for a business class in Doha, after discovering that it was the subject of an investigation.

The judge said he had acted with deliberation and premeditation to avoid the investigation.

On Monday, NGO pleaded guilty on Monday for helping Iswaran to pay the Singapore Grand Prix for the Doha flight ticket in Singapore.

NGO risks up to two years in prison for encouraging an official by obtaining gifts, while the maximum prison sentence to which he risks the accounting of the obstruction of justice is seven years.

The 79 -year -old man is also accused of having encouraged Iswaran to get a trip all the costs paid in Doha, which was worth around $ 20,850 ($ 168,188; £ 12194).

The two men were arrested in July 2023 and charges revealed that Iswaran had been offered more than $ 403,000 ($ 311,882; £ 234,586) of flights, stays at the hotel, musicals and grand -price tickets.

At the time of the offenses, Iswaran was in the F1 government steering committee and the chief negotiator on F1 cases.

NGO has helped bring the F1 Grand Prix to Singapore and its company Hotel Properties Limited (HPL) has brands like Four Seasons and Marriott operating under it.

Singapore legislators are among the best paid in the world, leaders justifying beautiful wages saying that it fights corruption.

Born in Malaysia in 1946, NGO moved to Singapore when he was a child and founded a hotel and a real estate business in the 1980s.

NGO has rare cancer of bone marrow, and the court previously allowed it to travel abroad for medical and work purposes.

Hotel Properties Limited had declared earlier in April in April that NGOs would move as managing director “managing its medical conditions”.