A Singapore-based billionaire has been fined $23,400 (S$30,000; £17,251) after he had earlier pleaded guilty to a charge connected to a gift scandal that shocked the country last year.
Hotel tycoon Ong Beng Seng had admitted to abetting the obstruction of justice by helping ex-transport minister Subramaniam Iswaran cover up evidence while the latter was being investigated for corruption.
Ong gave expensive gifts, including an all-expenses paid trip with a private jet ride, to Iswaran while they were engaged in official business.
The 79-year-old had faced a maximum penalty of seven years in jail but a judge said "judicial mercy" would be granted in light of his poor health.
Ong suffers from multiple myeloma, a rare bone marrow cancer.
