The Monetary Authority of Singapore sees it fit to first hire a non-citizen, Sopnendu Mohanty, as Chief Fintech Officer handling sensitive data in the Singapore. It then further permtted him to assume a significant position in a foreign government, specifically the government of his home state of Odisha in India. The state government released a statement mentioning that Mr Mohanty will "enjoy the status" of a minister of state.
They then claimed that the post is taken up in his "personal capacity" and because he receives no compensation, no conflict of interest arises.
Yet the conflict is clear as day. That a foreign citizen is allowed to take up a senior government position, then allowed to double hat in a foreign government is unconscionable. There are no safeguards, and clearly a lack of loyalty to the people of Singapore.
We demand an investigation into the appointment in India, who approved it, who approved Mr Mohanty's hiring in MAS and why there is a lack of basic sense of accountability to Singapore as far as MAS is concerned.
One set of rules for elites, another set for peasants.........SIGHZ.
Letter: Did MAS conduct a thorough investigation before claiming that there is no conflict of interest by its Chief FinTech Officer
This is a follow-up letter from a member of the public, Emmanuel Chin to an earlier letter sent to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Heng Swee Keat, Second Minister of Finance, Indranee Rajah and Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean.
Did the Monetary Authority of Singapore really conduct a thorough investigation before its response* by Ms Sherry (from MAS’ Corporate Communications Division)?
It was claimed that Mr Mohanty would receive no compensation. But the Times of India just stated a list of benefits that “advisers” to the state of Odisha, that Mr Mohanty is one of, enjoys.
“The advisers would get other entitlements like office chambers in Lok Seva Bhawan or on premises of government organisations, personal staff and government quarters.”
The other “advisers” to the state are all political leaders. And Mr Mohanty is also mentioned in the article. The “advisers” stated they would work for free but the article suggest they are more than happy to enjoy their other entitlements. So is MAS’ definition of “no compensation” excluding benefits in kind? That is a very very scary thought.
Public servants in Singapore don’t even get those perks.
And given that the description of the job makes it sound rather involved, how much time away from his MAS job is Mohanty taking?
This should be a cut and dry issue. Either there is no conflict of interest and MAS should be able to easily explain it, or there is one but MAS failed in its duties to the public. Clearly the former is not the case since the news has been ongoing for more than a week yet no satisfactory response has been made.
There are Facebook articles, forum threads, foreign press and yet absolute silence from your agencies.
Someone failed in their due diligence the first time, please don't fail the Singapore people again.
*Ms Sherry in her reply to queries about Mr Mohanty’s possible conflict of interest, said:
Source: https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2019/09/25/letter-did-mas-conduct-a-thorough-investigation-before-claiming-that-there-is-no-conflict-of-interest-by-its-chief-fintech-officer/
Fucking monkeys in white have sold out the country to foreign trash. Show them no mercy at the next GE, WE MUST VTO!!!!!!!!!
I am of the belief an escape clause probably lurks somewhere which allows civil servants to legally moonlight as long as their superiors/organisation approves of it.
You seriously think the useless PAP will cave in to a bunch of whining Sillyporeans and give their darling Cecaporean FT the boot?
CECAs are our overlords yahoo no thanks to Ho Ching and PM Lee literally bowing down to them