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Oracle employee named in Singapore sex-for-favors case

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SINGAPORE | Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:53am EDT

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A female employee of computer giant Oracle's Singapore unit was on Tuesday named in a sex-for-favors corruption case involving the former head of the city-state's anti-narcotics agency.

Ng Boon Gay, then director of the Central Narcotics Bureau, faces two charges of obtaining sexual gratification from a senior sales manager at Oracle Corporation Singapore Pte Ltd as an inducement to help further the firm's business interest, Singapore's anti-corruption agency said.

The alleged offences took place in December 2011.

Ng also faces two other charges of obtaining sexual gratification from the same individual when she was an employee of Hitachi Data Systems Pte Ltd (HDS), according to court documents seen by Reuters.

"Any alleged inappropriate behavior attributed to our former employee during her time at HDS was undertaken without the knowledge of, or being condoned by, anyone at HDS," a Hitachi spokeswoman said in an emailed statement to Reuters.

A Oracle Singapore spokeswoman declined comment.

Ng is currently out on bail.

The charges against Ng come one week after the former head of Singapore's civil defense force Peter Lim was charged with accepting sex for favors.

Lim faces 10 charges and his case involved three different women working for IT firms in the city-state.

(Reporting by Leonard How and Eveline Danubrata; Editing by Michael Urquhart)
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Comments (4)
Ocala123456789 wrote:
Larry you should not run a whore house… maybe you can patent the whorehouse rights so you can make profit out of it in the future…

Jun 12, 2012 9:38am EDT  --  Report as abuse
Tiu wrote:
You don’t want to get convicted of a caning offense in Singapore!
These two, and their superiors, should be stripped naked and mercilessly whipped in public, I’d suggest outside of Raffles, with the rattan until they are truly sorry.

Jun 12, 2012 9:48am EDT  --  Report as abuse
krimsonpage wrote:
Completely normal business practice in Southeast Asia. Nobody does large-scale business in that part of the world without arranging this type of entertainment.

Jun 12, 2012 12:21pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
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