No charges owed to airport over private plane

SINGAPORE: No charges are owed to Seletar Airport over the private jet allegedly belonging to fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low, parked at the airport, the Changi Airport Group (CAG) said.

“The private jet in question is parked at a private company’s hangar at Seletar Airport.

“There are no charges owed to Seletar Airport,” a CAG spokesman said in an email reply to Bernama.

The CAG was asked to respond to The Star’s report that Seletar Airport asked for the settlement of the parking charges first before the Bombardier Global 5000 aircraft was allowed to be flown to Malaysia.

The CAG is the operator of the Seletar Airport.

The Star had frontpaged a report yesterday stating Seletar Airport indicated the fee to Singaporean authorities after Malaysia’s keen interest in taking possession of the plane.

A source said that Malaysia would have to cough up at least RM3.5mil to bring the aircraft home – RM3mil for parking charges and another RM500,000 to service the aircraft.

The Malaysian government wants to bring back the private jet, which was impounded by Singaporean authorities in 2017.

The aircraft was reportedly part of some US$1bil (RM4.1bil) in assets that were allegedly acquired with funds misappropriated from 1Malaysia Development Bhd. — Bernama