SINGAPORE – A 37-year-old Vietnamese woman, Tran Thi Tien, was sentenced to one week in jail on July 10, 2025, after pleading guilty to unauthorised access to confidential police information under the Official Secrets Act (OSA). She obtained case details about her then-husband’s 2016 theft investigation with help from a police inspector whom she later entered into a sexual relationship with.
At the time of the offence, Tien was undergoing divorce proceedings and sought to use the case information against her husband. She approached Chan Zhiyao, then a senior investigation officer in the Special Victims Unit of the Bedok Police Division. Chan was investigating a child abuse case involving Tien and her then-husband.
On 9 December 2020, Tien asked Chan to retrieve details of a 2016 theft incident allegedly involving her husband at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. The next day, Chan conducted an unauthorised search on the police internal computer system using her husband’s information and retrieved the report number linked to the theft case. He sent the information to Tien via WhatsApp on 10 December 2020.
Investigations later revealed that Chan and Tien entered into a sexual relationship in May 2022, and that Tien loaned him S$2,000 in 2023 at his request. These developments surfaced during a separate investigation into Chan’s misconduct.
On 10 July 2025, Tien pleaded guilty to one charge under the OSA. The court ruled that she had instigated the offence by requesting the confidential information, and had manipulated her personal connection with Chan for legal advantage. The Singapore permanent resident was granted bail of S$10,000 and is scheduled to begin her jail term on 24 July 2025.
Chan, now 44, had earlier been sentenced in April 2025 to one year and four months’ jail for multiple offences, including unauthorised access to official information and other charges not related to Tien. The Singapore Police Force confirmed that he was suspended from duty, but court documents did not clarify whether he had formally exited the force.
During sentencing, the prosecution highlighted that Tien’s actions were deliberate and calculated. Although she was not the officer who accessed the database, her initiating role in the breach, her personal relationship with the officer, and the financial loan she gave him made her the primary instigator in the eyes of the court.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Cheah Wenjie stated that even though the leak involved only a report number, it constituted an offence under the OSA as it involved unauthorised sharing of confidential law enforcement data.
This case adds to a string of incidents involving abuse of official access and misconduct in public service, reinforcing the authorities’ stance that any breach of trust and improper use of official data, especially when personal gain is involved, will be punished severely.
The court emphasized the seriousness of breaching the Official Secrets Act, even for seemingly minor pieces of information like a case reference number, especially when such disclosures are motivated by personal relationships and used to support civil proceedings like divorce.
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Inspector chan succumb to pussie power
Singapore Police is very clean.