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Manager of key Shell contractor pleads guilty to bribing Shell staff to get contractsTHE Attorney-General's Chambers of Brunei, represented by a team led by Singapore's Davinder Singh SC of Drew & Napier, has won its case in what it called one of the country's largest corruption scandals.self storageThe manager of Musfada Enterprise, a key Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP) contractor, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to multiple counts of bribing Shell employees. Malaysian David Chong admitted to having given B$101,843 in bribes to Shell employees in return for them securing more than B$3.2 million in contracts for Musfada between 2007 and 2009.Musfada supplied chemicals, oil spill kits, box pallets, safety equipment and office equipment to Shell.Under Shell's guidelines, its employees are prohibited from accepting money, loans or gifts worth more than B$50 from external parties.Chong changed his plea midway through trial, and pleaded guilty to 34 charges under the Prevention of Corruption Act, as well as four charges of cheating and two charges of fraudulently destroying documents.He was sentenced yesterday to six years and four months' jail for each of the 34 corruption charges, as well as the two charges of fraudulently destroying documents. For each of the four cheating charges, the court senten迷利倉ed Chong to four years and nine months.All sentences were ordered to run concurrently, not consecutively, giving a total jail term of six years and four months.In delivering its sentence, the High Court noted that the offences were perpetrated against a designated public body that is the backbone of Brunei's economy, accounting for more than half of the country's gross domestic product and 90 per cent of its total export earnings.It also awarded costs of B$180,000 to the prosecution, in default of which Chong is to serve extra jail time of six months, to run consecutively with the other sentences.The court further ordered Chong to pay to the state S$219,838.10 and US$326,174.55. Chong has to do so within nine months of the order, in default of which he has to serve another jail term of five years, to run consecutively with the other sentences.The Brunei authorities are working with Singapore's Commercial Affairs Department to recover the monies from Chong's bank accounts in Singapore.Chong was represented by Sankaran Halim, Advocates & Solicitors, while the prosecution was led by a team headed by Mr Singh and Gary Low of Drew & Napier, along with prosecutors from the Attorney-General's Chambers.This is the first criminal case in a foreign jurisdiction that Mr Singh has acted in.迷你倉