Chong Wei Kwong, 50-years-old was sentenced on Monday to 10 weeks imprisonment, fined $5,000 and disqualified from driving all vehicles for 5 years, after being caught drink-driving for the second time and trying to bribe a police officer with $1,000.
He was previously caught drink-driving in 2001, where he was fined $2,000 and disqualified from driving all vehicles for 15 months.
He was then caught again on 14 December 2018 in Selegie Road at around 10pm, with 76 micrograms of alcohol in 100ml of breath, which was more than twice the legal limit.
What happened?
Chong was reversing his car near the exit gantry of the carpark at PoMo shopping mall and hit a door, which fell to the ground/
A security supervisor was alerted of the incident and he then called the police, which Chong asked him not to.
Staff Sergeant Low Wee Meng and Second Sergeant Rachel Zhuang arrived at the scene.
Chong denied being the driver of the car and told the police that they had no evidence, he also tried to take back his IC from eh officers because he didn’t want them to record his personal particulars and investigate him for drink driving.
A breathalyser test was then administered a few times on Chong by Staff Sergeant Low because the former did not blow into the device properly.
Chong then failed the test and was arrested and brought back to the police station.
He then asked Staff Sergeant Low “can we compromise”, to which the officer told him that there are cameras everywhere and there is no way he could get out of it.
Chong then told the officer “whatever you want, I will do for you” before offering him $1,000 after the officer warned the persistent man.
Staff sergeant Low then rejected the offer, and the CPIB were then informed of the attempted bribe.