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Gursharan Kaur Sharon Rachael reportedly disclosed confidential information on a contract in exchange for money and luxury vacation in Bali and Dubai

Gursharan Kaur Sharon Rachael

SINGAPORE: A Singaporean woman was sentenced at 33 years old. She was sentenced to several months in prison for her role in a massive corruption scandal, dubbed the "Fat Leonard" affair that rocked the US Navy.

Gursharan Kaur Sharon Rachael, 57, former contract chief of the US Navy District Court here at the end of 2015 for disclosing confidential information in exchange for money and luxury vacations.

She had given this information to the Malaysian businessman Leonard Francis, who was running a port services company called Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA). ] Francis – nicknamed "Fat Leonard" – had confessed to agents on duty with money, alcohol, prostitutes and other benefits to make sure that the ships of the US Navy were stopping at the ports where his company operated. The defendants pleaded guilty to the United States on charges related to their role in the scandal, nine of whom were sentenced to various prison terms and fines.

One of them was Rear Admiral Robert Gilbeau. He was sentenced to eighteen months in prison

. US prosecutors said Francis had provided prostitutes to Gilbeau and paid for his stay in a luxury hotel.

Singapore prosecutors said that Gursharan had leaked More specifically, the information disclosed by Gursharan was tied to 16 US Navy contracts, of which GDMA won $ 11 million ($ 48 million) ( Gursharan "played a central role in Leonard's web of corruption," they said.

According to US prosecutors, Francis had taken over the tab on widespread debauchery, including a multi-day feast in May 2008, with a rotating carousel of prostitutes, during which the conspirators drank all the Dom Perignon available at the Shangri-La hotel in Manila for a cost of more than US $ 50,000 (RM 20,800)