Two former senior officials at the Singapore Land Authority (SLA)–Koh Seah Wee and Lim Chai Meng–have pleaded guilty to defrauding their own agency of $10 million in one of the country’s largest public corruption cases.

The SLA, a division of the Ministry of Law responsible for approving land use for economic and social development, announced in June that it had detected a pattern of irregular payments involving the two men stretching back over a decade. According to court papers, both Koh and Lim submitted fake invoices to the SLA for information technology services. Koh was the former deputy director at SLA and Lim was a manager in the same department, and both had the authority to approve such payments, which in some cases were made to sham companies set up by accomplices.

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