The president of a recycling company was sentenced to six weeks' jail on Tuesday for instigating his driver to get two people to take the rap for traffic offences committed by two friends.
Seah Hock Thiam, 46, boss of Esun International, is appealing against his conviction and sentence.
He was found guilty earlier of two charges of abetting Mr Mohamad Azmi Abdul Wahab, 40, to intentionally pervert the course of justice on a day in August 2009.
In meting out the sentence, the district judge noted features of Seah's case that distinguished itself from the case involving prominent plastic surgeon Woffles Wu Tze Liang.
The judge noted that in Wu's case, there was no indication that any monetary rewards had been given by him, whereas in Seah's case, he had paid money to the 'scapegoats'. Full story
