Most uncivil behavior from a founder of “one of Singapore’s most established civil-society groups.”
Vivienne Wee has been found guilty of stealing her grant. She got almost a million dollars to work on a website, but secretly transferred the money from the original contractor to a bogus outfit run by her family.
The ICAC, Hong Kong’s anti-graft body, accused the pair of conspiring to hide from City U, and that she had a conflict of interest with the company that was the actual service provider of the IT contract.
The IT contract was for a website and intranet project headed by Wee. It was won by the company Sparkland. But the job was actually done by Locus Interactive, run by Wee’s sister-in-law, Ng Ngar-Sheung.
Both the owner of Sparkland and Ng were also found guilty of conspiracy to defraud. The owner of Sparkland had transferred the university’s payment to Locus, and received a cut of the fees.