Hyundai Engineering & Construction is the main contractor behind the Labrador Villa Road project, which features South-east Asia\u2019s largest underground substation to date \u2013 the area of four football fields \u2013 and a 34-storey commercial tower.<\/p>\n
The Labrador substation will serve the electricity needs of nearby Alexandra, Clementi, Keppel, Pasir Panjang and the Science Park district.<\/p>\n
The others charged were safety coordinators Biswas Uzzal, 42, Hossain Mithu Mohammad Arif, 33, Uddin Md Mesbah, 34; safety supervisor Biswas Pradip Chandra, 29, and safety manager Siow Hung Wee, 53.<\/p>\n
Siow is a Singaporean, while the others are Bangladeshi nationals.<\/p>\n
Uzzal, Mithu, Pradip and Uddin are accused of accepting bribes of around $2,700 in total from other safety coordinators between 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n
Siow allegedly engaged in a conspiracy with Uzzal to accept bribes of $900 in total from other safety coordinators over four occasions between June 2023 and February 2024.<\/p>\n
The bribes were an inducement not to issue safety administrative charges.<\/p>\n
On two other occasions, within the same period, Siow is said to have conspired with Mithu to accept bribes of $1,000 in total from safety coordinators.<\/p>\n
The bribes were inducement to allow a worker to re-enter the site to work after he was banned for committing an unsafe work act.<\/p>\n
Siow is said to have engaged in a conspiracy with Uzzal and Mithu in October 2023 to accept a bribe of $500 from a safety coordinator.<\/p>\n
Over three occasions between September and December 2023, Uzzal allegedly engaged in a conspiracy with Pradip to accept a total of $650 in bribes from safety coordinators.<\/p>\n
In addition, Uzzal is accused of engaging in a conspiracy with Mithu and Pradip to accept bribes of $700 in total on two occasions in October 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hyundai Engineering & Construction is the main contractor behind the Labrador Villa Road project, which features South-east Asia\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[29689,29671,29670,29686,29683,29680,29675,22920,29672,29691,29684,295,15637,294,293,29676,29690,29677,29681,29673,29682,29669,29674,29688,29687,29685,29678,23075,29679],"class_list":["post-51832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hyundai","tag-bangladesh-singapore","tag-bangladeshi-nationals","tag-bangladeshi-workers-in-singapore","tag-biswas-pradip-chandra","tag-biswas-uzzal","tag-bribery-allegations","tag-construction-industry","tag-construction-safety","tag-corruption-charges","tag-corruption-investigation","tag-hossain-mithu-mohammad-arif","tag-hyundai","tag-hyundai-engineering-construction","tag-hyundai-group","tag-hyundai-motor-group","tag-hyundai-project","tag-labour-issues","tag-labrador-villa-road-project","tag-migrant-workers","tag-prevention-of-corruption-act","tag-shaheen","tag-singapore-bribery-case","tag-singapore-court","tag-singapore-news","tag-siow-hung-wee","tag-uddin-md-mesbah","tag-underground-substation","tag-workplace-safety","tag-workplace-safety-violations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}