Loh/How/Yeo were issuing invoices (on behalf of FMSS) and approving
payment (on behalf of town council) into their own pockets.
About $6.6 million was paid out in just one Financial Year [2012/2013] in this way. This was the period covered by the AGO audit.
How much more was paid out in this way is anybody's guess.
The cheques were co-signed by either the chairman (Sylvia Lim) or vice chairman (Png Eng Huat) of the town council.
Danny Loh and How Weng Fan are hardcore supporters of the Workers’ Party. They were the Assentor and Proposer for the Workers’ Party in the General Elections of 2006.
When the Auditor asked them serious questions on such transactions, they said: this is not within your remit to ask.
[That is an evasion, it is not an answer.
The Auditor asks you serious questions and your response is: you are not entitled to ask these questions.
Why doesn’t the Town Council give proper answers instead of playing hide and seek?
What are you hiding?
That is not negligence.
It is active decision to suppress.
It raises the issue of integrity.] - K Shanmugam
Ref: Speech by K Shanmugam in Parliament
About $6.6 million was paid out in just one Financial Year [2012/2013] in this way. This was the period covered by the AGO audit.
How much more was paid out in this way is anybody's guess.
The cheques were co-signed by either the chairman (Sylvia Lim) or vice chairman (Png Eng Huat) of the town council.
Danny Loh and How Weng Fan are hardcore supporters of the Workers’ Party. They were the Assentor and Proposer for the Workers’ Party in the General Elections of 2006.
When the Auditor asked them serious questions on such transactions, they said: this is not within your remit to ask.
[That is an evasion, it is not an answer.
The Auditor asks you serious questions and your response is: you are not entitled to ask these questions.
Why doesn’t the Town Council give proper answers instead of playing hide and seek?
What are you hiding?
That is not negligence.
It is active decision to suppress.
It raises the issue of integrity.] - K Shanmugam
Ref: Speech by K Shanmugam in Parliament
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