A story is that the mole is this senior civil servant from
NEA who will be jailed and then he will join the SDP or WP to
further discredit it. Many of the details about him in
the froum thread has been deleted to cover up his track:
http://www.sgclub.com/singapore/nea_manager_guilty_45255.html
NEA manager guilty of sending false terrorist attack
messages
By Elena Chong, Court Correspondent
Neo Khoon Sing who was tried for 24 days, was convicted of sending
hoax warnings about terrorist attacks to government websites in
2005. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
A NATIONAL Environment Agency (NEA) senior manager was found guilty
of three charges of sending false feedback messages about possible
terrorist and bomb attacks to government websites in 2005.
Neo Khoon Sing, 38, who has been suspended from duty, is the first
to be tried under the United Nations (Anti-Terrorism Measures)
Regulations, which make it an criminal offence to spread false
alarms about terrorist acts.
Most of the offenders accused of making alarmist messages have
pleaded guilty and jailed since the law was introduced in
2001.
Neo, who was tried for 24 days, was convicted of sending hoax
warnings about terrorist attacks to eCitizen Defence & Security
eTown feedback website and Ministry of Home Affairs feedback unit
on Oct 18, 2005 at the NEA North East Regional Office at Sin Min
Drive.
He was also convicted of sending a long e-mail about a 'plot to
conduct suicide bomb attack against PM, Ministers and MPs in a
major event in Bedok Reservoir area in the coming weeks' to the PMO
Feedback Unit the next day.
Neo, who was then the co-leader of a sub-committee for NEA's Clean
and Green Week 2005, used fake Muslim names to send out the
messages.
Besides Neo's statements, the prosecution, led by Deputy Public
Prosecutors Christopher Ong and Crystal Ong, had based its case
largely on circumstantial evidence in the form of e-mails which it
contended were sent by Neo.
The prosecution had also relied on computer forensic evidence to
establish its case.
Neo, a father of one, denied sending out the e-mails, saying he had
nothing to do with them and that they were probably sent by someone
else.
District Judge Bala Reddy said he had carefully considered all the
evidence and found that prosecution had established its case
against Neo beyond any reasonable doubt.
'The evidence adduced by the prosecution leads to the irresistible
conclusion that it was the accused who had sent the messages
mentioned in the three charges,' he said.
There was not a 'shred' of credible evidence to support Neo's
alibi, added Judge Reddy, noting that Neo's statements contradicted
his own story, too.
Neither was there evidence that he was of unsound mind at the time
of the offences, said the judge.
Neo's lawyer, Mr Raymond Lye, said his client, had been a civil
servant for 10 years and was promoted twice - in the late 1990s and
2003 from manager to senior manager .
He had also published articles on disease control in professional
journals, and won prizes and awards.
He said Neo had been seeing a psychiatrist for the past 10 years
for paranoia and is in remission.
Neo will be sentenced next Friday.
He can be fined up to $100,000 or jailed for up to five years or
both on each charge.
