MP Sylvia Lim asked subsequent questions to seek clarification on the handling of the Mr Iswaran’s case, which she said raised more questions than it answered. She argued that the public could well conclude that the corruption case against the former Minister was weak due to the reduction of charges under the Prevention of Corruption Act to charges under S165 of the Penal Code. She also highlighted that the lack of an open trial in favour of a plea bargain had given rise to a lot of speculation in the public sphere as to what precisely happened on the facts and also between the AGC and the defense. Residents had also expressed to her their doubts about whether the public prosecutor had defended the public interest adequately since the sentence was double what the prosecution had sought. Minister Chan Chun Sing later said that a charge under Section 165 was a corruption charge which Sylvia disagreed with, stating that corruption was not required for Section 165.
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