新加坡在调查涉嫌利用非公开信息购买规划中火车站附近房产一事后，已将八名公务员移交警方处理。
Singapore has referred eight civil servants to the police following an inquiry into the suspected use of nonpublic information to buy properties near planned railway stations.
公共服务统筹部长陈振声周二宣布了这一移交决定。此前，一家位于美国的智库发布的一份工作论文发现，公务员购买未来快速大众运输系统（MRT）车站附近住宅的可能性明显高于常人。
Coordinating Minister for Public Services Chan Chun Sing announced the referrals on Tuesday after a working paper by a United States-based think tank found that civil servants were disproportionately likely to buy homes near future Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) stations. In remarks to Parliament, Chan said the government had identified eight individuals who warranted further examination following a review of property transactions by 191 civil servants.
陈振声在国会发言时表示，在对191名公务员的房产交易进行审查后，政府已确定有八人需要进一步调查。
“Let me emphasise that a referral does not mean that wrongdoing has been established,” Chan said.
“我必须强调，移交警方并不意味着已经证实存在不当行为，”陈振声说，“警方将独立调查事实，并遵循正当程序。”他还表示，政府严肃对待滥用政府信息的行为，一旦证实存在不当行为，将“坚决”采取行动。
“The police will look into the facts independently and due process will be followed.”Chan said the government took the misuse of government information seriously and would act “firmly” in any cases where wrongdoing was established.
“基本原则非常明确，”他说，“公职人员绝不能利用通过职务获得的个人信息来谋取自身或他人的私利。”
“The fundamental principle is clear,” he said.
此次声明是在美国国家经济研究局上月发布一项研究之后作出的。该研究指出，新加坡公务员在规划中的MRT车站尚未公布时，购买这些区域住宅的可能性高出60%。
“Public officers must never use information obtained through their official duties to advance their own private interests or those of others.”The announcement comes after the National Bureau of Economic Research last month published research suggesting that Singaporean civil servants were 60 percent more likely to buy homes in areas where planned MRT stations had yet to be announced.
这份由斯坦福大学、哥伦比亚大学和香港大学经济学家合著的研究发现，相关购房行为主要集中在与公共交通规划有关的中层官员中，并为涉事人员带来了“可观”的经济收益。
The paper, written by economists at Stanford University, Columbia University and the University of Hong Kong, found that purchases were concentrated among mid-level officials linked to public transport planning and generated “meaningful” financial gains for those involved.
新加坡长期以来以廉洁治理的领导者自居，并宣称对腐败采取零容忍态度。
Singapore has long prided itself on being a leader in clean governance, proclaiming zero tolerance for corruption.
去年，在国际透明组织发布的年度腐败感知指数中，这个城邦国家的公共部门排名第三，仅次于丹麦和芬兰。
The city-state’s public sector was ranked third-cleanest in Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index last year, trailing Denmark and Finland.
2024年，新加坡一家法院以妨碍司法公正以及在任期间收受价值超过30万美元的礼物为由，判处前交通部长S·伊斯瓦兰12个月监禁。
In 2024, a Singaporean court sentenced S Iswaran, a former transport minister, to 12 months in prison for obstructing justice and accepting gifts worth more than $300,000 while in office.
伊斯瓦兰的定罪标志着自1975年以来新加坡首次对内阁官员提起刑事诉讼。1975年，时任环境部长魏敦邦被认定从一名当地商人处收受回扣。
Iswaran’s conviction marked the first prosecution of a cabinet official in Singapore since 1975, when then-Environmental Minister Wee Toon Boon was found guilty of receiving kickbacks from a local businessman. In 1986, Teh Cheang Wan, a minister for national development, was under investigation by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau.
1986年，国家发展部长陈长万正接受贪污调查局的调查，但在被正式起诉前去世。
He died before charges were brought against him.