SINGAPORE: Singapore Press Holdings Media Group has filed a police report after uncovering potential offences during its probe into the exaggeration of its circulation numbers.
Inconsistencies in circulation data reporting first came to light during an internal review of processes conducted between September 2020 and March 2022, a period coinciding with the restructuring of SPH and the establishment of SPH Media Trust . , 5,000 from a Y Deal, 15,000 from an X Barter deal, 1,900 school copies, 2,300 airline copies, 9,000 agency copies, and 400 copies from subscribers to all-in-one packages.The committee presented a 14-page report to the SMT board on Tuesday. The report stated that Allen & Gledhill deemed the actions taken against the employees and former employees in January to be “reasonably justified in the circumstances” and compliant with SMT’s policies.
The committee’s chairman, Max Loh, has clarified that the police report does not target specific individuals or entities. He added that it was not the committee’s role to determine the offences and said that the police could access the findings of the internal probe and the unredacted investigation report.