Two Indian employees of a food delivery company in Singapore were each fined SGD 24,000 for accepting bribes in 2020. According to a report in The Straits Times newspaper on Thursday, Maheswaran M. Ratinasavapathy, 27, and Renitha Muraleedharan, 31, both former employees of the food distribution company Sonnamera, pleaded guilty to three graft charges.
Rathinasabapathy, who was at the time a warehouse manager, was paid bribes by Hema Suthan Nair Achuthannayar, a director at the manpower contracting services company Inspiro, in exchange for endorsing Sonnamera’s business. The bribes have totalled about SGD 6,800.
Ratinasavapathy discussed his plans to suggest Achuthannayar’s business to Sonnamera as a source of labour in exchange for commissions with Muraleedharanan, an account/administrative executive at the time of the offences, in July 2019.
The prosecutor claims that Muraleedharan had no objections. In 2020, Ratinasavapathy delivered Muraleedharan her part of the commissions, amounting to around SGD 3,400, and received bribes totalling about SGD 6,800.
According to the story, the court punished the pair with SGD 24,000 apiece.
Muraleedharan, who has not given the company back, shall face a punishment of SGD 3,379, while Rathinasabapathy, who has returned SGD 2,600 to Sonnamera, was also sentenced to pay a penalty of SGD 829.
Achuthan Nair, who left for Malaysia in March 2020 before Singapore implemented the Covid-19 circuit breaker, is still at large, according to deputy public prosecutor Jane Lim.
In January 2021, information concerning the matter was provided to the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau.
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