An Indian-origin former Singaporean jail officer has been sentenced to over three years in jail for searching for bribes, amounting to SG$133,000 for transferring an inmate out of his jail cluster.
Kobi Krishna Ayavoo, 57, a retired senior chief warder, was discovered responsible of eight costs beneath the Prevention of Corruption Act, as reported by The Straits Occasions newspaper.
Moreover, he was convicted of inciting his colleagues to entry the jail system to view the inmate’s info in July 2017, leading to his suspension.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Magdalene Huang revealed that Kobi had tried to acquire a bribe from an inmate, Chong Keng Chye, on eight separate events between September 2015 and March 2016. The inmate wished to be relocated from a piece generally known as Cluster A1 in Changi Jail.
The prosecutor mentioned: “There was no means (Chong) may have identified concerning the accused’s monetary issues or obtained the cell phone and checking account numbers until the accused had informed him; and there was no different cause for the accused to have given him the data besides that he wished bribes.”
Chong, serving a 20-year preventive detention sentence since 2005 for abusing his girlfriend’s seven-year-old son, desired a switch out of a cluster in Changi Jail.
Though Kobi tried to safe between SG$3,000 and SG$42,000 from Chong, he by no means obtained any cash.
It was disclosed in court docket that Chong recognised Kobi’s lack of authority to help him and subsequently didn’t adjust to the requests for bribes.
Kobi denied the accusations, stating that he by no means requested cash from Chong throughout any of the eight cases. He defined that he solely spoke to Chong throughout yard time when different inmates have been close by.
