KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 31 Former MCA boss Tan Koon Swan will be awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award during a Fourth World Chinese Economic Forum (WCEF) subsequent month.
Tan will be among 8 recipients set to accept a endowment during a eventuality that will be hold in Melbourne, Australia starting Nov 12.
Announcing this today, current MCA boss Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek additionally congratulated Tan in a press conference.
"It's time for what you call redemption. He has gone by a difficult duration as well as I think he deserves (the award)," Chua said.
In 1985, a high-flying Tan fell from beauty when he was locked up dual years as well as fined S$ 1 million (RM2.5 million during current rates) after being charged upon fifteen counts that enclosed share strategy as well as rapist breach of certitude (CBT) in what became known as a Pan-El scandal. He give up MCA shortly after.
But he not long ago found a little condolence when Glenn Knight, a former Singapore prosecutor that won a self-assurance opposite a ex-politician, wrote that Tan should not have been found guilty.
Knight wrote in his book: "It was intensely unpleasant for me to unexpected find that a Singapore courts had got it wrong."
Knight's views have, however, been disputed by Singapore's Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC), which pointed out errors in his book, "The Prosecutor".
Among others, it noted that there were fourteen other charges that were not pursued in a 1986 box opposite Tan since he had pleaded guilty to a assign of rapist breach of certitude by defilement of Section 157(1).
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