Former transport minister S Iswaran arrived at the State Courts today to begin his 12-month jail term after deciding not to appeal his sentence. Hours

SINGAPORE: Former transport minister S. Iswaran arrived at the State Courts at 3.32pm on Monday (Oct 7) for the start of his 12-month jail sentence.

The former transport minister says he will begin his one-year jail term on Monday and ‘apologises unreservedly to all Singaporeans’.

SINGAPORE: Former transport minister S. Iswaran will not be appealing the sentence handed down by the High Court on Thursday (Oct 3).

S. Iswaran is set to hand himself into a Singapore court to become the first ex-cabinet minister to be jailed in almost half a century, in a scandal that has riveted a city that prides itself on good governance.

A Singapore court was due on Thursday to sentence a former transport minister convicted last week of receiving more than $300,000 worth of gifts, in what could be the first jailing of an ex-cabinet member in a city-state known for clean governance.

SINGAPORE: Former transport minister S Iswaran has been sentenced to jail for obtaining gifts worth about S$403,300 (US$313,200) over seven years, from two businessmen he considered his friends. The 62-year-old was given a jail term of 12 months on Thursday (Oct 3),

Singapore’s former transport minister S Iswaran has said he will not appeal the longer-than-expected 12-month sentence handed down by the court, stressing that he takes “full responsibility” for his actions. In a statement on Monday, he wrote that he ...

Singapore ex-minister S. Iswaran will not be appealing the 12-month prison sentence handed to him for obtaining valuable items as a public servant and obstruction of justice.

Iswaran, who was convicted after pleading guilty to four charges of obtaining valuable items as a public servant and one count of obstruction of justice, is scheduled to surrender to the court at 4 pm on Monday to begin his sentence.