Golf clubs, whisky and a Brompton bicycle: What are the 8 new charges Iswaran faces?
Former transport minister S. Iswaran faced eight new charges on March 25, involving items worth almost $19,000. Here are the charges.
PUBLISHED: March 25, 2024
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22 bottles of whisky and wine, a Brompton bicycle, and quite a few golf clubs 22병의 위스키와 와인, 브롬톤 자전거, 그리고 상당한 수의 골프 클럽
Here’s a summary of the items allegedly obtained by former transport minister S. Iswaran between November 2021 and November 2022 from Mr Lum Kok Seng, who is managing director of Lum Chang, a property management, interior design and construction firm. 이곳은 전 교통장관인 S. 이스와란이 2021년 11월부터 2022년 11월까지 부동산 관리, 인테리어 디자인 및 건설 회사인 Lum Chang의 대표이사인 Lum Kok Seng으로부터 얻은 것으로 추정되는 물품들에 대한 요약입니다.
Iswaran had allegedly known him to be involved in business that had a connection with his official function as Minister for Transport.
He now faces a total of 35 charges, including the first 27 charges handed to him on Jan 18. Read the charges in full here.
Here are the eight new charges against Iswaran, annotated
The fresh charges were listed in separate PDF documents. Each page contains one charge ordered by date of alleged obtainment by Iswaran.
The charges are listed in order of the approximate date the items were allegedly obtained by Iswaran. The first charge is for four bottles of Gordon & MacPhail Caol Ila whisky worth $1,084.46 in total, around November 2021. He allegedly accepted another 4 bottles of this whisky in January and May 2022.
The second charge is for around January 2022, when he allegedly obtained a total of 12 wine and 2 whisky bottles totalling $3,255.75.
The third charge includes the first of the golf clubs, a TaylorMade golf driver worth $749 that was said to have been obtained also in January 2022.
In the fourth charge, in May 2022, he is alleged to have obtained two more bottles of whisky, of the same type he is said to have obtained in November 2021 and January 2022.
In June 2022, he allegedly obtained a set of Honma Beres BE-08 Black AQ MX golf clubs worth $4,420.
Around the same time, June 2022, he is also said to have obtained a Brompton T Line bicycle worth $7,907.50.
Around July 2022, he is said to have obtained two bottles of M&H Elements Sherry Cask whisky worth $198 in total.
The final charge, around November 2022, involved a Scotty Cameron Phantom golf putter with a value of about $600 and two golf chippers with a value of about $100 each.