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(Reuters) – A Singapore court charged a top property billionaire on Friday with obstructing justice and abetting offences by a disgraced ex-transport minister jailed a day earlier in the city-state’s high-profile government graft case, Channel News Asia reported.
Ong Beng Seng, the 78-year-old owner of Hotel Properties Ltd and rights holder to the Singapore Grand Prix Formula One race, is accused of giving gifts worth nearly $300,000 to ex-minister S. Iswaran, who on Thursday became the first former cabinet member to be jailed in Singapore.
(This story has been refiled to fix the spelling of S. Iswaran in paragraph 2)
(Reporting by Martin Petty; Editing by Christopher Cushing)
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