45-year-old police officer Poo Tze Chiang, allegedly took bribes totalling $32,500, and was charged with 7 counts of corruption and 3 counts of obstruction of justice on 22 November.
He had allegedly received bribes of about $32,500 from Cordell Chan Yuen Kwang and Wang Huate on 7 occasions, from 2019 to 2020.
He was allegedly given the bribes so that he would provide information to Chan and Wang, relating to the police investigations against them.
51-year-old Ng Chuan Seng also allegedly aided Chan and Wang in September 2019 by giving Poo a $2,000 red packet – Ng was charged with one count of corruption on Tuesday.
Poo allegedly told Chan on 5 August 2020 that Wang would be detained if he reported for bail.
The three of them were at a void deck in Bukit Batok when Poo purportedly flashed his police warrant card at 2 police officers who were patrolling in the area so that they wouldn’t perform checks on Chan and Wang.
On 25 November, Poo then allegedly told Chan that he had spotted a colleague’s car, and told Chan to head to a coffeeshop nearby.
The CPIB said that Singapore has zero tolerance towards corruption, and if convicted, Poo faces a jail term of up to 5 years and a fine of up to $100k, for each charge.