Iswaran to serve 12-month jail term after deciding not to appeal

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Singapore's former transport minister S. Iswaran will start serving his 12-month jail sentence after revealing that he was not appealing the sentence handed down by the High Court on October 3.  The 62-year-old was accompanied by a relative as he walked up to court to surrender himself ahead of the 4pm deadline on Monday (Oct 7).  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/y69wf2w7  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Singapore's former Transport Minister S Iswaran has started his 12-month jail sentence

00:08after revealing that he was not appealing the sentence handed down by the High Court

00:12on October 3.

00:13The 62-year-old was accompanied by a relative as he walked up to court to surrender himself

00:19ahead of the 4pm deadline on Monday.

00:22In a statement on Facebook, Iswaran said, among others, that he accepted as a minister

00:27what he did was wrong and took full responsibility for his actions.

00:31He also apologised unreservedly to all Singaporeans.

00:35Iswaran, who was a cabinet member for 13 years and has held the trade, communications and

00:41transport portfolios, had initially said he was innocent and would fight to clear his

00:45name.

00:46He, however, pleaded guilty last week to four counts of improperly receiving gifts and one

00:52of obstructing justice.

00:54The former minister faced a total of 35 charges, two of which were corruption-related but were

00:59later amended to charges of receiving gifts while a public servant.

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