Ex-NKF chief TT Durai to start 3-month jail sentence from Jun 10
May 30th, 2008 | by David C |Doesn’t quite make sense. How is it that TT Durai is able to get so much concessions from the court. Come on, first he is able to go to Dubai to work (read: leave the country) and now he is able to defer his sentence due to some family issues?
This guy swindled money donated by kind Singaporeans for his own personal pleasure and he gets his jail sentence handed to him on a golden plate? What justice is this?
Really, how is it that someone guilty of a crime is able to leave the country, while Dr. Chee can’t even leave the country just for being a bankrupt.
Can someone please help me understand.
SINGAPORE: Former National Kidney Foundation (NKF) chief TT Durai will start his three-month jail sentence from 10 June, after the judge dismissed his appeal.
Justice Tay Yong Kwang said Durai “was in a position of trust and authority at the NKF and the return of the money only came about after investigations into the invoices were underway.”
He added that the “money in question belonged to a charity whose funds come from well meaning trusting donors”.
In June 2007, Durai had been found guilty of using a false invoice to deceive the NKF into paying S$20,000 to his interior designer friend, David Tan.
Durai’s lawyers had argued that Durai, who is now working for a company based in Dubai, is in charge of billion-dollar deals, so a custodial sentence would affect his ability to pay off his debts to the NKF.
But Justice Tay dismissed the arguments and threw out Durai’s appeal.
However, he allowed Durai to defer his sentence to 10 June because his elderly mother is going for a cataract surgery on 3 June. - CNA/vm
Source: CNA
One Response to “Ex-NKF chief TT Durai to start 3-month jail sentence from Jun 10”
By Roger Tan on Jun 11, 2008 | Reply
No one has questioned one of the Directors of the former NKF Board, who turned Prosecution Witness. Is he not liable, too and why he got off so easily??
And that David Tan, who obviously benefited the most from the NKF as a Contractor, and played out his friend, TT Durai.
Now, I know why David is now known in public as the Snake, who stabbed his friend.
True, this fella is a fair-weather friend.