SINGAPORE - Corruption of foreign public officials is an aggravating factor in sentencing, and offenders who offer bribes to people working for a foreign government should expect to face jail time as a starting point.
A lead contract specialist employed by the US Navy, Kaur received more than $130,000 in cash and luxury vacations for leaking confidential information to defence contractor Leonard Glenn Francis, a Malaysian known as"Fat Leonard". Investigations into the scandal resulted in the conviction of several senior US Navy officers, including a Rear Admiral. Francis pleaded guilty in the US in 2015 and is awaiting sentencing.
The rationale is that cases of corruption are aggravated when they jeopardise the integrity of public service, and the sentencing outcome for public sector corruption is typically a custodial term. Kaur's lawyer Suresh Damodara argued that she was merely a civilian employee of the US Navy, and thus not a public official, public officer or a public servant.The judge noted that definition of"foreign public official" within the United Nations Convention Against Corruption includes a person exercising a public function for a foreign country.
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