61-year-old Leo Norman Chee Wei Kiong, a former director with the Housing Development Board (HDB), was sentenced to 2 weeks imprisonment on Friday and fined $31,600.
Chee, who was a civil servant for more than 35 years, had pleaded guilty to 6 charges, including filming obscene videos and possessing the obscene videos.
8 other charges were considered during his sentencing.
Background
Chee was a former housing finance director at HDB, and he was in a male locker room of an unspecified Safra clubhouse back in April 2012 when he took two photos of a man in underwear.
In January 2013, Chee was in a male locker room again and took 5 photos of another man who was changing his clothes and had his genitals exposed at the time.
Chee then took a 1-minute long video in December 2017, of a man named “Billy” who was not wearing any clothes at all at Chee’s home.
In December 2018, Chee took a 25-second video of another man who was not wearing any clothes at a locker room at Mount Faber Safra.
Chee then took another video of Billy without any clothes on 25 September 2019.
Chee was at a supermarket at Kallang Bahru when he saw a man that he found attractive, and took a video of him, before being caught by the man, with a commotion then ensuing and the police being alerted by an employee of the supermarket.
Chee then agreed to delete the video after admitting to filming him, and when the man checked Chee’s phone to make sure the video was deleted, he noticed several obscene videos of other men without clothes.
He later informed the police about what he saw and the police then seized Chee’s device, which was later found to have 146 obscene videos.
Chee admitted to using his mobile phone to film and take photos of men that he found attractive at public places such as gyms and changing rooms.