Originally posted by Glen999:
NKF History : The 1st Whistle Blower
In 1999, a woman by the Tan Kiat Noi circulated an email telling
people about the high bonuses paid out in NKF and urging them to
stop donations. Luckily, the she received no interest from the
authorities for her email and was crucified by Durai - she ended up
paying $50K to NKF which is alot of money in those days. Because of
the total lack of interest on the part of our authorities in
listening to ordinary Singaporean whistle blowers, we get to enjoy
those wonderful entertaining NKF shows for another 6 years.
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Kidney foundation seeks court order over defamatory e-mail
Agence France Presse. May 6, 1999.SINGAPORE 'S National Kidney
Foundation (NKF) is seeking a court order to compel Internet
service providers to give the names of subscribers who may have
circulated a defamatory e-mail against it, the Straits Times
reported Thursday.
If the court order, which takes up to a month to obtain, is
granted, it would be the first ever served on Singapore's three
internet service providers, the report said.
"A high profile organization like the NKF will always be subjected
to comments both good and bad. We must be prepared to take a tough
stand and face them," said Matilda Chua, NKF's senior associate
director.
This unprecedented move follows a furor last week over an exercise
by Singapore's largest Internet service provider which scanned the
computers of its subscribers to check for a virus without
permission.
The exercise triggered fears in the tightly-ruled island that even
cyberspace was not free from state control.
The NKF's move arose from e-mail sent to several people by a local
woman accusing the NKF of paying high bonuses to its staff. She
allegedly urged them not to donate to the foundation, the report
said.
Since then, the woman, identified as Tan Kiat Noi, has paid
S$50,000 dollars to the foundation in damages and has publicly
apologized and withdrawn her statements.
The 48 e-mail subscribers who have received the e-mail from Tan and
forwarded them to others have been tracked down and received
letters from the NKF's lawyers, the report said.
A lawyer for the NKF said the 48 were asked to disclose the names
and e-mail addresses of those they might have sent the defamatory
e-mail to and were given a week to comply.
They may also be asked to pay damages, the lawyer told the
paper.
This is what we call legal gangsterism.
