Woman testifies in Singapore's second sex-for-business scandal
Female executive gives lurid details of a yet another sex-for-business incident involving a government official and a high-technology provider
A key state witness has given a graphic account of intimate relations with a former Singapore police official accused of demanding sex for help in winning government supply contracts.
Cecilia Sue, 36, who sold computer technology to government agencies, said Ng Boon Gay, 46, gave her confidential information that helped secure a contract when he was director of the Central Narcotics Bureau last year.
High-level corruption cases are rare in Singapore, a corporate and financial centre known for an efficient and well-paid bureaucracy, and the case has drawn massive interest in the city state because of lurid sexual details.
State prosecutors said Ng demanded oral sex from Sue on four occasions to assist her companies Hitachi Data Systems and later Oracle, violating Singapore's anti-corruption laws. He can be jailed up to five years and fined as much as S$100,000 (HK$630,000) for each of the corruption charges if convicted.
New evidence presented in court yesterday indicate they had intercourse once.
"I asked him whether there was a leftover budget. I asked him is it about 300 plus (thousand)? He mentioned it was a couple hundred thousand (dollars) or so," Sue said under questioning by the defence.
Asked if Ng influenced the tender for the supply of computer hardware and software to the narcotics board by telling her the budget, she replied "yes".