{"id":35802,"date":"2023-07-14T18:39:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T22:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/investing\/hotel-properties-shares-drop-as-executive-faces-questioning-by-antigraft-agency\/"},"modified":"2023-07-14T18:39:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T22:39:14","slug":"hotel-properties-shares-drop-as-executive-faces-questioning-by-antigraft-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=35802","title":{"rendered":"Hotel Properties Shares Drop as Executive Faces Questioning by Antigraft Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js-article__body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-sbid=\"MW-BT-CO-20230713-710278\" role=\"document\">\n<p>By Sherry Qin<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>Shares of Hotel Properties fell in early trading after the company said its billionaire managing director had been issued a notice of arrest and faced questioning related to a corruption investigation in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Shares were down 4.4% at 3.69 Singapore dollars (US$2.79) early Friday, putting the company on track for its biggest one-day loss in more than two years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p>Hotel Properties said in a stock exchange filing on Friday that Managing Director Ong Beng Seng had been asked by Singapore&#8217;s Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau to provide information regarding interactions with the city-state&#8217;s transport minister. No charges have been filed against Ong, who was given a notice of arrest and who posted bail, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Hotel Properties added that Ong was traveling overseas beginning Friday and plans to surrender his passport to the CPIB upon his return. &#8220;Mr. Ong is cooperating fully with CPIB and has provided the information requested,&#8221; the company said in its statement. It added that an internal committee had determined that Ong &#8220;continues to be suitable to carry out his duties and responsibilities as managing director.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The statement comes after the CPIB on Wednesday said it was interviewing Transport Minister S. Iswaran as part of an &#8220;investigation into a case uncovered by the CPIB.&#8221; Iswaran, who has been placed on leave while the agency conducts its probe, hasn&#8217;t been accused of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>Hotel Properties has a portfolio of dozens of hotels and resorts across 15 countries, including in the United Kingdom, Italy, Indonesia, South Africa and Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Write to Sherry Qin at sherry.qin@wsj.com<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/hotel-properties-shares-drop-as-executive-faces-questioning-by-antigraft-agency-f308997a?mod=investing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sherry Qin Shares of Hotel Properties fell in early trading after the company said its billionaire managing director had been issued a notice of arrest and faced questioning related to a corruption investigation in Singapore. Shares were down 4.4% at 3.69 Singapore dollars (US$2.79) early Friday, putting the company on track for its biggest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-35802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investing","tag-featured","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hotel Properties Shares Drop as Executive Faces Questioning by Antigraft Agency | iFintechWorld<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Sherry Qin Shares of Hotel Properties fell in early trading after the company said its billionaire managing director had been issued a notice of arrest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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