Charges reduced from 35 to five as rare corruption trial involving a senior politician gets under way in city state.
Singapore’s former transport minister, S Iswaran, has pleaded guilty to accepting gifts worth thousands of dollars while in office, after months of strenuously denying the charges against him.
Iswaran, who resigned in January, pleaded guilty to five charges on Tuesday, Singapore’s ChannelNewsAsia reported.
The 62-year-old admitted to four charges of breaching Section 165 of the Penal Code, which forbids public servants from obtaining anything valuable from someone involved with them in an official capacity, as well as one charge of obstruction of justice.
He was initially charged with 35 offences. Those charges were expected be taken into account for sentencing.
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