The man handed an ICA officer a piece of paper which said: "I give you 200 Singapore dollars inside the passport. Let me go to visit Singapore please."
The man handed an ICA officer a piece of paper which said:"I give you 200 Singapore dollars inside the passport. Let me go to visit Singapore please."SINGAPORE: After being denied entry into Singapore at Changi Airport, a Bangladeshi man offered an Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officer S$200 to let him through.For his actions, Rakibul, 30, was sentenced to a month's jail on Friday , the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau said in a press release.
Along the way, Rakibul handed INSP Firdaus a piece of paper with the message: “I give you 200 Singapore dollars inside the passport. Let me go to visit Singapore please.” "When ASP Wong attempted to clarify Rakibul’s intent in producing the paper, Rakibul offered S$200 in cash to as an inducement to be allowed entry into Singapore," CPIB said.
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