Oral Reply to Parliamentary Question on Factors Determining the Country to Deport Foreigners to After Serving Their Sentences

Question:

Ms Sylvia Lim: To ask the Minister for Home Affairs (a) for foreigners convicted of offences in Singapore, what are the considerations taken into account in deciding which country to deport them to after they have served their sentences; and (b) how are these considerations applied to the offenders involved in the recent billion-dollar money laundering case.

Answer:

Ms Sun Xueling, Minister of State, Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Social and Family Development:

1. Such foreigners can go to any country to which their passport or travel document allows them to go. This applies similarly to the convicted foreigners in the $3 billion money laundering case. Thank you.