SINGAPORE – An engineer at an agency under the Ministry of Health (MOH) corruptly

obtained a Paris trip worth over $18,000 from two senior executives

of different telecommunications companies in or around March 2022.

Ng Kah Siang was then working for Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS) – a wholly owned subsidiary of MOH Holdings. He is no longer working for the agency, now known as Synapxe.

He committed the offence in exchange for advancing the business interests of the men’s firms with IHiS.

On July 31, Ng, 37, who is also known as Ronnie, was sentenced to five months and two weeks’ jail after he pleaded guilty to one count of obtaining a bribe and two counts of attempting to do so.

He has since voluntarily surrendered more than $18,000 to the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB).

Court documents stated that he had obtained the bribe from Chiang Chee Seng, 50, then a senior sales director at Nera Telecommunications and Peng Ming, 39, then an account director at Huawei International.

Chiang was

sentenced to 11 weeks’ jail on July 21

after he pleaded guilty to a graft charge. Peng’s case is pending. All three men are Singaporeans.

Deputy public prosecutors Eugene Phua and Andre Ong told the court that while working for IHiS, Ng was in charge of various contracts that it signed with vendors, who would provide IT products and services to all public healthcare institutions in Singapore.