Ex-ST Marine senior exec fined, two others charged

Singapore

THE first of seven former Singapore Technologies Marine Ltd (ST Marine) senior executives implicated in the corruption scandal that hit bluechip engineering giant Singapore Technologies Engineering's (ST Engineering) subsidiary last December has been fined S$210,000.

Patrick Lee Swee Ching, ST Marine's former group financial controller, on Wednesday afternoon pleaded guilty to seven counts of abetting bogus entries for entertainment expenses. 31 other similar charges were taken into consideration during sentencing. The amount of expenses involved in all 38 charges was more than S$126,000.