An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
SINGAPORE - After more than three decades on the run, former NTUC president and Member of Parliament Phey Yew Kok was charged in court on Wednesday. Phey had jumped bail and fled Singapore in 1980 to escape charges for misuse of union funds. He had been charged with four counts of criminal breach of trust involving $83,000 in December 1979.
Back then, he was also charged with two counts under the Trades Unions Act for investing $18,000 of trade union money in a private supermarket without the approval of the minister. All six charges were re-read to Phey, who is now 81, on Wednesday. He had turned himself in at the Singapore Embassy in Thailand, and was escorted back to Singapore on Tuesday night. The prosecution has applied for him to be remanded at Changi Prison for investigations, and more charges will be tendered against him.
A pre-trial conference has been set for July 23. In response to media queries, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said: “Phey Yew Kok was facing charges of Criminal Breach of Trust when he absconded while on bail in 1980. He has now turned himself in and returned to Singapore. He has been charged in court, and the law will have to take its course. This will bring closure to a long outstanding case involving a person who was holding public office as an MP and a senior union leader -
Election coming is it? Run so many decades will go and surrender himself :confused:
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24-06-2015, 04:30 PM
Former NTUC president and MP Phey Yew Kok charged in court after decades on the run
