all is fair in before the law.
but some are more fair than the
others.
In August
1997 and December 1998, NKF volunteer Archie Ong and aero-modelling
instructor Piragasam Singaravelu respectively were hauled to court
separately for defamation when both said that T.T. Durai had been
flying first class. The former mentioned in April 1997 that the NKF
"squandered monies" in a casual conversation with former chairman
of NKF's finance committee Alwyn Lim,[1] while the latter has
claimed that he had personally seen Mr Durai in Singapore Airlines'
first-class cabin. Both paid an undisclosed amount of damages to
the NKF, and apologised. [2] News of the suit affected Ong's
cancer-suffering father, who eventually died in hospital. Shortly
after the 2005 scandal broke, Ong mentioned to the press that he
felt "fully vindicated now. I had more than a hundred calls today
to wish me well."
In 1999, NKF tracked down and again took legal action against Tan
Kiat Noi, who allegedly circulated an e-mail from her company
e-mail on 5 April, claiming that "the NKF did not help the poor and
needy, paid its staff unrealistically high bonuses"[4] and
discouraged members of the public from donating. She later
published a public apology on local broadsheets The Straits Times
and Lianhe Zaobao, and paid a total of S$50,000 in damages.[5] 48
additional workers who forwarded the same e-mail were also sued by
the organisation, but the suit was later dropped in consideration
that they would face possible financial hardships.[6] Days since
the 2007 civil suit began, there have been calls by the public to
redress the grievances of the three abovementioned
whistle-blowers.[7]
In 2001, the National Council of Social Services refused to renew
the NKF's "Institution of Public Character" status (which allows it
to collect tax-free donations), citing that subsidy figures had
been inflated, staff costs had increased by 30% and a
"disproportionate" amount of money was spent on fundraising.[8]
However, the Health Ministry intervened and reinstated the NKF's
IPC status for a full three years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Kidney_Foundation_Singapore_scandal
that durai should APOLOGISE on the newspaper to them, pay back
watever money he got from them, plus interest.
