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THE company whose 167 workers got locked out of their Joo Chiat quarters last Wednesday says it does not owe the landlord any money.
Last week, The Sunday Times quoted landlord Mohamed Ali as saying that Deluge Fire Protection, based in Joo Koon Crescent, owed $23,500 in rental.
But Deluge's project director Tan Ann Kiong said the company only has an agreement with a firm called Broadlee Construction to house its workers - from India, Bangladesh, China and Myanmar - in Joo Chiat.
Showing documents and copies of cheques paid to Broadlee and the agreement it has with Broadlee since January this year, he said: 'We paid promptly at the start of each month and we've never been late in payments.'
'We have no way of knowing whether Broadlee passed on the money to this Mr Mohamed Ali and we have no dealings with Mr Ali.'
In the Sunday Times story, Mr Ali, who kept the workers locked out for five hours, said that that was the only way to get Deluge to pay up.
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Strats Times.
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