SINGAPORE: A former officer from AETOS Security
Consultants has been charged with asking a teenage girl to either
have sex with him or give him money after he caught her smoking and
littering.
26-year-old Eddie Quek Yu Meng was attached to the
National Environment Agency (NEA) as an enforcement officer when he
caught the student and two other teenagers throwing cigarette butts
at Woodlands Civic Centre on October 31, 2008.
He took down their particulars but is believed to
have released them on the spot instead of reporting the trio to the
relevant authorities.
Quek allegedly posed as an NEA officer and contacted the girl in
February 2009 even though he had already left AETOS the year
before.
The pair is believed to have met up at a stairway of Block 365,
Woodlands Avenue 1 on February 10, 2009.
Quek allegedly told the girl that he would inform her parents about
her offences if she did not give in to his demands.
The Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau declined to reveal the
girl's age or if she had given in to his demands.
Quek is also accused of accepting $50 from an unknown Chinese man
whom he had caught littering.
It is believed this was in exchange for not taking enforcement
action against the litterbug.
Quek allegedly committed this offence in September 2008 when he was
still an AETOS officer.
If convicted of corruption, he could be jailed up to five years and
fined a maximum of $100,000.
Quek also faces five forgery charges.
In one of the cases, he allegedly made use of another person's
education certificate and passed it off as his own to apply for a
job in November 2007.
Quek is believed to have used the Singapore-Cambridge General
Certificate of Education belonging to a woman identified as Koh Hui
Hoon.
Quek will be back in court on November 8.
If convicted of forgery, he could be jailed up to four years and
fined for each charge.
- CNA/fa/ls
