22 bottles of whisky and wine, a Brompton bicycle, and quite a few golf clubs
Here’s a summary of the items allegedly obtained by former transport minister S. Iswaran between November 2021 and November 2022 from Mr Lum Kok Seng, who is managing director of Lum Chang, a property management, interior design and construction firm.
Iswaran had allegedly known him to be involved in business that had a connection with his official function as Minister for Transport.
He now faces a total of 35 charges, including the first 27 charges handed to him on Jan 18. Read the charges in full here.
Here are the eight new charges against Iswaran, annotated
The fresh charges were listed in separate PDF documents. Each page contains one charge ordered by date of alleged obtainment by Iswaran.
The charges are listed in order of the approximate date the items were allegedly obtained by Iswaran. The first charge is for four bottles of Gordon & MacPhail Caol Ila whisky worth $1,084.46 in total, around November 2021. He allegedly accepted another 4 bottles of this whisky in January and May 2022.
The second charge is for around January 2022, when he allegedly obtained a total of 12 wine and 2 whisky bottles totalling $3,255.75.
The third charge includes the first of the golf clubs, a TaylorMade golf driver worth $749 that was said to have been obtained also in January 2022.
In the fourth charge, in May 2022, he is alleged to have obtained two more bottles of whisky, of the same type he is said to have obtained in November 2021 and January 2022.
In June 2022, he allegedly obtained a set of Honma Beres BE-08 Black AQ MX golf clubs worth $4,420.
Around the same time, June 2022, he is also said to have obtained a Brompton T Line bicycle worth $7,907.50.
Around July 2022, he is said to have obtained two bottles of M&H Elements Sherry Cask whisky worth $198 in total.
The final charge, around November 2022, involved a Scotty Cameron Phantom golf putter with a value of about $600 and two golf chippers with a value of about $100 each.