Singapore – A District Court has given Ejendomstycoon Ong Beng Bed’s application to leave Singapore from April 28 to May 16 to travel to the United States, UK and Italy.

A State Court of Justice’s online portal says Ong, facing charges in a case allegedly linked to former Transport Minister S. Iswaran, is expected to go to London, Boston, Miami, New York and Florence for work.

On April 24, the court also heard that he is traveling to the United States for non -demolished medical reasons.

Ong’s current $ 800,000 bail has also doubled to $ 1.6 million.

As part of his relationship, the 79-year-old Malaysian must give the full details of where to live and his contact numbers to the investigative officer (IO) who handles his case or an officer who acts under the latter.

Ong must also remain contactable of IO and surrender his passport to the officer within 24 hours of returning to Singapore.

By 2024 the billionaire was charged with a counting of forgery in accordance with section 165, Which makes it an offense for a public employee to accept something of value from any person he is involved in an official capacity without payment or with insufficient payment.

Ong is known as the man who brought F1 to Singapore in 2008 – the first night race in the history of the sport.

Iswaran was chairman of the F1 management committee and the government’s main negotiator with Singapore GP on business issues related to the race.

The two men had worked in the mid-2000s to convince then the Formula One group’s CEO Bernie Ecclestone to make Singapore the venue for the first night race of the sport.

As per the court documents initiated the businessman in December 2022 ISwaran to fly on Ong’s private aircraft From Singapore to Doha.

The flight was appreciated to USD 7,700 ($ 10,400), according to court documents.

Ong is also said to have arranged Iswaran a stay on a night in Four Seasons Hotel Doha, appreciated for $ 4,737.63, and a business class flight from Doha to Singapore, Varished for $ 5,700.

He had allegedly warned Iswaran that the corrupt practice examination agency had seized the flight for the December 2022 trip, prompting Iswaran to ask Tycoon to invoice him about the flight to avoid investigations.

For this alleged offense, he received another charge – dismissal of obstacle to justice.

Iswaran, 62, faced a total of 35 charges, most of whom involved ong.

Iswaran was Sentenced to 12 months in prison in October 2024 To accept, among other things, a number of valuable items from Ong.

Straits Times had previously reported Ongg intends to plead guilty, And his conference before the trial takes place on April 25.

If they are convicted of having a public employee getting gifts, an offender can be imprisoned for up to two years, fines or both.

If judged to obstruct justice, an offender can be imprisoned for up to seven years, fines or both.

• Shaffiq Alkhatib is Strait Times’ Court of Justice, which mainly covers criminal cases heard in the state courts.

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