By Xinghui Kok
Singapore’s Transport Minister S. Iswaran was charged with 27 offences in a graft investigation, the anti-corruption agency said on Thursday, in one of the highest-profile cases involving a minister in the Asian financial hub in decades.
In a resignation letter dated Tuesday but published by the prime minister’s office on Thursday, Iswaran said he rejected the charges and “will now focus on clearing my name”.
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