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A former government minister in Singapore was sentenced to one year in prison on Thursday in a rare graft case that has transfixed the affluent city-state. The minister, S. Iswaran, who oversaw transportation, last week pleaded guilty to accepting g
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SINGAPORE: Former transport minister S Iswaran has been sentenced to jail for obtaining gifts worth about S$403hexa988,300 (US$313,200) over seven years, from two businessmen he considered his friends. The 62-year-old was given a jail term of 12 mon
SINGAPORE: The highly anticipated trial of former transport minister S Iswaran is set to open on Tuesday morning (Sep 24), eight months after he was charged with corruption linked to Formula 1 bigwig Ong Beng Seng. The criminal trial is one-of-a-kin
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