Boss denies asking personal driver to take rap for parking offences

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The 45-year-old president of Esun International has denied asking his personal driver to take the rap for traffic offences committed by his friends, The Straits Times reported.

On Monday, Seah Hock Thiam, the boss of a gold and metal recycling company, defended allegations that he asked his driver, Mr Mohamad Azmi Abdul Wahab, 40, to get Mr Azmi's friend, driver Salami Badrus, and aunt Rosniwati Jumani to take the blame for the parking offences.

These offences were committed by Seah's friends, Mr John Ho Ah huat, then chief executive of video entertainment company Scorpio East Holdings, and Mr Ong Pang Aik, chairman of construction company Lian Beng Construction.

Both had parked their Porsche and Maserati illegally along Simon Road on Aug 12, 2009 and subsequently received letters from the Traffic Police.

Mr Ong then faxed these letters to Seah, who then handed it to Mr Azmi to settle.

Last week, Mr Azmi testified that he had, on his own accord, filled in the request for the driver's particulars with Mr Salami and the housewife's name.

Seah told the court that he had no idea how Mr Azmi was going to settle the summons, but said the driver would just have to pay the fine and the case would be settled.

On May 11, Seah denied the contents in his statement to the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau.

The defence case is that the statement that Seah had made on May 11 is a cut-and-paste job of the earlier statement he made on May 4.

Upon being asked by his lawyer Sleva K. Naidu if he would benefit anything from these episode, Seah replied "Nothing."

The trial continues.