Singapore PM's pay not the highest
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Chen Shui Bian has illegally "paid" himself US$31 million during the 8 years as President or about S$5.4m per year.
Who dare say that Singapore minister's salary is the highest in the world now?
Aug 15, 2008 Taiwan's Chen quits partyTAIPEI - TAIWAN'S former president Chen Shui Bian on Friday quit the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) after money laundering allegations against him and his family surfaced this week.
'I have to say sorry to DPP members and supporters with a heavy heart. I let everybody down and caused irreparable damage to the party. This was not my intention but I made mistakes,' Chen said in a statement.
'To show my deepest remorse, my wife Wu Shu Chen and I leave the DPP from now,' he said.
The statement came hours after Taiwan's premier, Mr Liu Chao shiuan, confirmed that an investigation had been launched into the money laundering claims implicating the Chen family following similar moves by Swiss authorities.
Copies of Swiss documents obtained by Kuomintang lawmaker Hung Hsiu Chu showed that Chen's son Chen Chih Chung and daughter-in-law Huang Jui Ching had transferred some 31 million US dollars (S$43.9 million) to Huang's Swiss bank accounts in 2007.
The former president on Thursday admitted that his wife had wired abroad 20 million US dollars from his past campaign funds, saying she had done so without his knowledge, but he denied money laundering charges.
He also vowed to donate the overseas funds to public affairs.
A string of corruption scandals implicating Chen, his family and top DPP officials has tarnished the party's image and led to its defeat in a March presidential vote.
Chen is already under investigation for allegedly embezzling 14.8 million Taiwan dollars in special expenses from the government while he was president, and his wife is on trial for corruption and document forgery in the same case.
He was named a suspect in the case in 2006 but escaped immediate prosecution because he had presidential immunity. -- AFP
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If one political figure can pull it off................
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Originally posted by Veneta:
Chen Shui Bian has illegally "paid" himself US$31 million during the 8 years as President or about S$5.4m per year.
Who dare say that Singapore minister's salary is the highest in the world now?
Aug 15, 2008
Taiwan's Chen quits partyTAIPEI - TAIWAN'S former president Chen Shui Bian on Friday quit the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) after money laundering allegations against him and his family surfaced this week.
'I have to say sorry to DPP members and supporters with a heavy heart. I let everybody down and caused irreparable damage to the party. This was not my intention but I made mistakes,' Chen said in a statement.
'To show my deepest remorse, my wife Wu Shu Chen and I leave the DPP from now,' he said.
The statement came hours after Taiwan's premier, Mr Liu Chao shiuan, confirmed that an investigation had been launched into the money laundering claims implicating the Chen family following similar moves by Swiss authorities.
Copies of Swiss documents obtained by Kuomintang lawmaker Hung Hsiu Chu showed that Chen's son Chen Chih Chung and daughter-in-law Huang Jui Ching had transferred some 31 million US dollars (S$43.9 million) to Huang's Swiss bank accounts in 2007.
The former president on Thursday admitted that his wife had wired abroad 20 million US dollars from his past campaign funds, saying she had done so without his knowledge, but he denied money laundering charges.
He also vowed to donate the overseas funds to public affairs.
A string of corruption scandals implicating Chen, his family and top DPP officials has tarnished the party's image and led to its defeat in a March presidential vote.
Chen is already under investigation for allegedly embezzling 14.8 million Taiwan dollars in special expenses from the government while he was president, and his wife is on trial for corruption and document forgery in the same case.
He was named a suspect in the case in 2006 but escaped immediate prosecution because he had presidential immunity. -- AFP
are you cock sure that our ministers never illegally pay themselves like ah bian?
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Originally posted by lotus999:
are you cock sure that our ministers never illegally themselves like ah bian?
i am pretty sure on that..... cos they can just make illegal thing legal lor..... -
they paid the ministers millions so that the ministers won't be corrupt and embezzle millions
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Originally posted by skythewood:
they paid the ministers millions so that the ministers won't be corrupt and embezzle millions
Like a child who tells his parents; give me more money and i'll give you less problems.Then he comes home and says; give me more money and i'll give you less failures in tests and exams.
Then he tells his parents again; give me even more money so i will not burden you and give you a good life when you grow old.
Then the child says; screw you old hags.
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huh?
Gazelle is back?
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chen's legal pay is that little,
yet he is alr getting so much illegal pay.
so, according to the rule of proportion, in singapore,
legal alr so much.
the rest i shall not mention
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Originally posted by skythewood:
they paid the ministers millions so that the ministers won't be corrupt and embezzle millions
Can I ask my teacher to give me more marks during exams so that I wouldn't cheat?Maybe I can. After all, PAP's logic is always correct.
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Originally posted by maurizio13:
huh?
Gazelle is back?
Wasn't TS the one who "hehehe" at Bottega's post on his very first post?
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Who dare say that Singapore minister's salary is the highest in the world now?
His pay not the highest?But by olympic standard,it should be a Gold Medal..
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Singapore PM's legal pay is the highest.
But Chen Shui Bian going to get charge and may face legal action. If Chen Shui Bian had increased his own pay like what our PM did, he will not have to face all the troubles he's facing now.
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Originally posted by 333225520:
Singapore PM's legal pay is the highest.
But Chen Shui Bian going to get charge and may face legal action. If Chen Shui Bian had increased his own pay like what our PM did, he will not have to face all the troubles he's facing now.
In Singapore, everything's better in black and white.
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If Chen Shui Bian had increased his own pay like what our PM did, he will not have to face all the troubles he's facing now.
He will get killed by the Taiwanese if he tries that stunt there.
They are politicised there.
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Chen Shui Bian ONE person paid himself SGD5.4 million each year through corruption.
The afew dozen Ministers; MM, PM, SM, Deputy Ministers, Presidents, Perm Secs, each pay themselves "legally" SGD 1 million to SGD 4 million every year for five years.
Talk about safety in numbers.
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Corruption is a crime; while unilaterally increasing your own salary is not.
Chen Shui Bian is stupid, he should have just ask for a $4 million a year salary, then it would have been legal.
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that too early to say,
nobody whether the ruling party member has TT any money into the swiss bank or not.
maybe we should conduct an investigation.
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Chen Shui Bian was prosecuted for corruption.
Our Ministers will never be put on trial for corruption.
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Singapore PM's pay not the highest? You should wait until GLC open books or when PAP collapse before coming to this conclusion. Who knows we might have another Suharto in Singapore? Remember Suharto ruled 30 plus years peacefully and was found later with his big cans of worms?
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Originally posted by maurizio13:
Chen Shui Bian was prosecuted for corruption.
Our Ministers will never be put on trial for corruption.
LoL yes how right.. At least the taiwanese are legally armed to deal with injustices.. Our ministers hold a monopoly on the legal use of force this puts them in worse light morally than Chen Shui Bian
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wa lao, our one is legalised leh.
that shui bian one is not leh.
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Originally posted by ulquiorra87:
LoL yes how right.. At least the taiwanese are legally armed to deal with injustices.. Our ministers hold a monopoly on the legal use of force this puts them in worse light morally than Chen Shui Bian
who knows, they'll probably use this to explain why they need to be paid an obscene amount in the first place....... or better yet use that to explain why their pay needs to go up again lol
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If there's an allegation, there's an investigation. When no one is above the law, there's democracy.
Can Singapore do the same? Is that the reasson why LKY must cling on dearly to power?
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Originally posted by Veneta:
Chen Shui Bian has illegally "paid" himself US$31 million during the 8 years as President or about S$5.4m per year.
Who dare say that Singapore minister's salary is the highest in the world now?
the key word is highlighted & underlined.
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No one knows for sure what is going on behind the curtain.
I don't think any government in the world is so transparent as to publish every single detail about the financial "businesses"