S. Iswaran, who was a cabinet member for 13 years and has held the trade, communications and transport portfolios, had pleaded guilty to four counts of improperly receiving gifts and one of ...

S. Iswaran, who pleaded guilty to improperly receiving gifts and obstructing justice, is the first former Cabinet member to be jailed in a city-state famous for its clean governance.

Singapore's former transport minister S Iswaran on Thursday was sentenced by a High Court judge to 12 months' imprisonment for four counts of accepting gifts from someone involved with him as a ...

Iswaran received gifts worth over 74,000 Singapore dollars ($57,000) from Ong Beng Seng, a Singapore-based Malaysian property tycoon, and businessperson Lum Kok Seng.

Still, for these gifts, Iswaran’s culpability was low as there was no evidence that he acted with premeditation or deliberation in accepting these. The former minister had repaid Singapore GP for the ...

According to the prosecution the value of the gifts Iswaran received totalled more than S$400,000 ($308,500). Iswaran, 62, faced a huge media scrum as he arrived in court and declined to answer ...

Iswaran, 62, initially faced 35 charges, but at the start of the trial, prosecutors announced they would pursue only five, downgrading two counts of corruption to the receipt of illegal gifts.

In a development that has shaken Singapore’s political landscape, former Transport Minister S. Iswaran was sentenced to 12 months in prison for obstruction of justice and accepting illegal gifts.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A former Singaporean Cabinet minister was sentenced Thursday to a year in prison after he pleaded guilty to charges of receiving illegal gifts, in a rare criminal case ...

Singapore's former Transport Minister S. Iswaran has pleaded guilty to receiving gifts while in office, as proceedings began on Tuesday in the first graft trial involving a minister in this Asian ...

S. Iswaran, who was a cabinet member for 13 years and has held the trade, communications and transport portfolios, had pleaded guilty to four counts of improperly receiving gifts and one of ...