SINGAPORE: A former PUB senior technician was on Wednesday jailed four months after accepting bribes totalling nearly S$2,300.
In addition, 41-year-old Jumat Omar was ordered by a district court to pay a penalty equivalent to the amount he had corruptly obtained.
Jumat pleaded guilty to three graft charges and four remaining ones were taken into consideration.
He committed the offences between late 2006 and April 2009.
Jumat used to work at the agency's sewer repair section and one of his duties was to notify private homeowners whenever their sewer lines needed to be repaired.
He was also tasked with recommending contractors to affected residents.
To prevent favouritism, Jumat had to provide homeowners with a minimum of three referrals from PUB's list of recommended companies.
Assistant Public Prosecutor S Puspha told the court Jumat took the bribes in exchange for being more lenient to sub-contractors when they performed their jobs.
One of them was PMPS Liner Technology, a company that deals with sewer rehabilitation.
Jumat went for drinks and entertainment with two of its directors at Superstar KTV Club at Hotel Royal on February 20, 2009.
His share of the bill came up to nearly S$400 and it was settled by one of them, Yeo Soon Tian, said APP Puspha.
In another incident, court papers stated that Mr Yeo shelled out more than S$750 in March 2009 to repair Jumat's damaged laptop computer.
MediaCorp understands that the other parties involved in these cases haven't been dealt with in court yet.
Jumat could have been jailed up to seven years and fined a maximum of S$100,000 for each corruption charge.
-CNA/wk
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