<div id="readability-page-1"><p>The 79-year-old, who helped bring Formula One to Singapore, was fined nearly two weeks after he pleaded guilty to the charge.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><img src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://vcdn1-english.vnecdn.net/2025/08/15/AFP-20250804-68NJ66U-v1-HighRe-5945-2200-1755246990.jpg/query-ZHByPTEmZml0PWNyb3AmaD0wJnE9MTAwJnM9VFg5YU8zRkVmVnFLY3hWU0U4Z2hfdyZ3PTY4MA?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg" width="680" height="454" original-src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://vcdn1-english.vnecdn.net/2025/08/15/AFP-20250804-68NJ66U-v1-HighRe-5945-2200-1755246990.jpg/query-ZHByPTEmZml0PWNyb3AmaD0wJnE9MTAwJnM9VFg5YU8zRkVmVnFLY3hWU0U4Z2hfdyZ3PTY4MA"/></td> </tr><tr><td> <p>Malaysian hotel tycoon Ong Beng Seng leaves the State Court in Singapore on Aug. 4, 2025. Photo by AFP</p> </td> </tr></tbody></table><p>Ong, who has incurable cancer, was charged last October with helping then Singapore transport minister S. Iswaran cover up evidence in a probe by the country's anti-corruption bureau. Iswaran was jailed for accepting gifts as a public servant and for obstructing justice.</p><p>Delivering the sentence Friday, Principal District Judge Lee Lit Cheng said Ong's medical condition warranted mercy.</p><p>&#34;A sentence of imprisonment would carry a high and increased risk of endangering his life,&#34; the judge said.</p><p>&#34;I therefore agree with defence and prosecution that exercise of judicial mercy is warranted,&#34; she said.</p><p>Ong owns Singapore-based Hotel Properties Limited and is the rights holder to the Singapore Grand Prix Formula One race.</p><p>He and Iswaran were instrumental in bringing the street circuit night race to Singapore in 2008.</p><p>Iswaran was jailed last year after pleading guilty to accepting gifts worth more than S$400,000 (US$$310,000).</p><p>He was also found guilty of obstructing justice in the city-state's first political graft trial in nearly half a century. He completed his sentence on June 6.</p></div>

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<p>马来西亚富豪翁炳生（Ong Beng Seng）因协助妨碍与前交通部长 S. Iswaran 相关的司法公正而被罚款 30,000 新元（23,400 美元）。这位 79 岁的老人患有不治之症，因其医疗状况避免了监禁。翁炳生在将一级方程式引入新加坡方面发挥了关键作用，并拥有酒店物业有限公司（Hotel Properties Limited）。Iswaran 因接受贿赂和妨碍司法公正而被判入狱，涉及一起重大的政治贪腐案件</p>

总部位于新加坡的马来西亚 F1 大亨王炳森被罚款 23,400 美元，未被判入狱