Crimes pay in our meritocratic and leadership society.
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He was charged for something petty if you ask me.Originally posted by Rock^Star:Repayment aside, this light treatment meted out to Durai sends a wrong message.
He even has the gall to appeal and says 'he is quite confident of overturning the ruling'.
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It will be petty to charge him if he was merely carrying out implicit directives of the power behind in not telling the public the whole truths about patient subsidy from the donations or years the reserves would last etc or some other incorrect information to donating public amounting to gross misrepresentation.Originally posted by kramnave:He was charged for something petty if you ask me.
But it was clearly proven that he got into business deals with some Indian software companies which failed to turn up in court to testify.
He had also got into ventures with directors and their wives as well and had approved payments despite non-delivery and non-performance of software to such companies even in the face of objections from his own staff which he removed.
Golden tap, unwarranted suing of the whistle blowers and payments of bonuses and granting of triple promotions to his own favored staff aside, are his conduct as found in court serious or not serious? -
For all the hate we have for him, he was criminally charged for something petty, with money to be recovered from him through a civil suit. I said that he was charged for something petty, not that it is petty to charge him !Originally posted by robertteh:It will be petty to charge him if he was merely carrying out implicit directives of the power behind in not telling the public the whole truths about patient subsidy from the donations or years the reserves would last etc or some other incorrect information to donating public amounting to gross misrepresentation.
But it was clearly proven that he got into business deals with some Indian software companies which failed to turn up in court to testify.
He had also got into ventures with directors and their wives as well and had approved payments despite non-delivery and non-performance of software to such companies even in the face of objections from his own staff which he removed.
Golden tap, unwarranted suing of the whistle blowers and payments of bonuses and granting of triple promotions to his own favored staff aside, are his conduct as found in court serious or not serious? -
Perspective varies depending on which side one is on - public who were constantly frustrated with similar lack of accountability and abuse of power or power that be.Originally posted by kramnave:For all the hate we have for him, he was criminally charged for something petty, with money to be recovered from him through a civil suit. I said that he was charged for something petty, not that it is petty to charge him ! -
durai first get only three months imprisonment then get hired by a singaporean company to work as CEO in middle east.
Public put him up for trial => he is proven guilty => get only 3 months => get CEO job from a local company => over-turn the 3 months by appeal.
see the sequence? 3 months is already so short. if he manages to get his appeal approved, what does all this add up to? A criminal proven guilty just walked free to enjoy a life which most of the public cannot even dream of ! basically boo chap the public's opinions.
yes. i remember that in the last elections, the oppositions were not allowed to make nkf a political issue. i wonder what is so big deal about durai that he enjoys so much protection. -
Not to forget out of every $1 people donated to NKF only 10 cent reached the poor. This was the kind of NKF that was running non accountable and non transparent to public while running by Durai. Imagine this is happening in national treasury how will Singaporean react?
Thanks to NKF incident, now people are thinking if ex financial minister Lim Hng Khiang can make mistake about NKF, will the minister not make any mistake in national treasury? Are we having a bigger can of worms in the government than NKF? I leave it to people to think about it. -
Actually Lim Hng Khiang was never the financial minister. He was at most second minister for finance. Got big difference leh!Originally posted by (human):Thanks to NKF incident, now people are thinking if ex financial minister Lim Hng Khiang can make mistake about NKF, will the minister not make any mistake in national treasury? Are we having a bigger can of worms in the government than NKF? I leave it to people to think about it.
I think his screwup was in handling SARS during his term as Minister of Health. That was when Khaw took over. -
well, if they charged him too hard....
What's going to happen if in some "freak" election/day the opposition took over and charge the incumbent for the same things, as what happened in Thailand? They will refer back to this case. -
The judge will say this case law doesn't apply.Originally posted by eagle:What's going to happen if in some "freak" election/day the opposition took over and charge the incumbent for the same things, as what happened in Thailand? They will refer back to this case.
As if the opposition (now government) dares to meddle with the judiciary .. you people will complain again.