THE former chief executive officer of Linair Technologies was sentenced to a total of four months' jail on Wednesday for corruption. Oh Boon Hua, 40, is given until Dec 26 to start his sentence.

Oh, who is now doing hotel management in China, had earlier pleaded guilty to three charges of giving $35,000, US$30,000 and US$20,000 to Mr Lim Niann Tsyr in 2003 and 2004 for recommending Linair and another company to be awarded part of a project to build Biopolis .

Both Mr Lim 41, then operations manager of Honeywell, and a middleman, Anthony Lim Tiong Teck, have been dealt with for corruption. Mr Anthony Lim, 35, was regional sales manager of Phoenix Controls Corporation in charge of the project.Linair is a listed company providing environmental-control exhaust systems and critical airflow control systems to semiconductor, wastewater treatment, pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries.

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