Woman gets two-year jail sentence in Singapore, S$78,000 fine for bribing witnesses at husband's trial, absconding during her ownFormer property agent Sally Lai Guek Ling and her husband Kenny Tay charged a couple an interest rate of 260 per cent on a S$30,000 loan. — iStock pic
However, Lai herself was later charged with bribing a witness. In the midst of her trial, she was granted permission to travel to Malaysia but ultimately failed to turn up in court again. The sentence was backdated to Jan 14 this year, when she returned to Singapore and was placed in remand. She also said that he could provide Salinah with a loan, to be repaid with proceeds from selling the flat. She did not tell them what the amount of interest on the loan would be.Tay then lent them S$30,000 over the next few months, which they used to settle their personal debts and expenses.However, she and her husband claimed about S$108,000 from the sales proceeds after charging an interest rate of about 260 per cent.
Court documents showed that on three other occasions, Lai also bribed Salinah and her husband with another S$2,900.It read: “I now realise that Kenny Tay has not charged me any interest at all. Without my knowledge, my husband had taken a loan of US$80,000 from Kenny Tay. I found a document in my house, which show that my husband had taken a loan of US$80,000 from Kenny Tay.”In April 2017, Lai was charged with bribing witnesses. Court documents did not state how her offences came to light.
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