Zheng Yongnian incident inside story: What does ＂severe warning＂ mean?

Zheng Yongnian, 58, served as the director of the East Asia Research Institute from 2008 to 2019. He resigned from East Asia this year and left Singapore in August. He is currently the president of the Chinese University of Higher China (Shenzhen) and Contemporary China Higher Institute.(File photo)

Zheng Yongnian, former director of the East Asia Research Institute of Singapore, was reported by two women last year and this year, stating that he was not polite to them in 2012 and 2018.According to the latest inside story learned by Lianhe Zaobao, the case in 2012 was false allegations. In the 2018 case, Zheng Yongnian was severely warned by the police, but there was no sufficient evidence that his behavior constituted non -ritual crime.

As for the case in 2012, according to the Lianhe Morning News report last week, the police did not take further action after investigation, indicating that non -ceremonial allegations were not established.Both cases of police have completed the case, and the National East Asia Institute is still conducting internal investigations on the 2018 case.

Earlier, the two women said through social media that Zheng Yongnian was not polite in 2012 and 2018, and they were former staff members of the East Asian Institute.Zheng Yongnian issued a statement through Xu Tingfang, a representative of Eliya Office on the 4th of this month, issued a statement, denied all allegations about sexual harassment.Xu Tingfang also pointed out that the warning issued by the police in the 2018 case did not constitute a crime or facts.

【Case 2018】

A key issue in the 2018 case is the meaning of Stern Warning.Chen Qiyu, a senior criminal lawyer in Singapore, learned that the police generally gave two warnings after investigation.Strict warning means that the case has been ended and it is not a criminal record.

Another more serious warning is Conditional Warning. Generally, the condition is that if the accused person has committed similar crimes within one or two years, the prosecution has the right to re -file a lawsuit.Police can give warnings through oral or written ways, but the more common ways in recent years are written warnings.After the police received the report, they found that the allegations were completely unrealistic, and they would not take further action or warned.

According to the Lianhe Morning Post, Zheng Yongnian was accused of suspected non -ritual in 2018 and reported the case after more than a year. There were some doubts in the case. During this periodrelation.Therefore, the people and former colleagues around Zheng Yongnian were shocked by this case.

As for a severe warning of the police, it can be because the incident involved in other aspects of improper behavior. This can mean that he was not kept sensitive when he was alone with the woman.Because the woman accused Zheng Yongnian hug her, it was not enough to form a non -ritual lawsuit.

Outside of the incident, I learned that the woman in the case of the case did not propose other specific allegations.

A woman named Yin, who was involved in the 2018 case, said in an interview with the South China Morning Post earlier that she was looking for her boss Zheng Yongnian to talk about career development under the advice of her colleague.She said that after entering Zheng Yongnian's office, Zheng Yongnian hugged her and patted her ass.She then struggled out of the office and sent a text message to Zheng Yongnian, saying that what happened in the office made her uncomfortable, and Zheng Yongnian replied to say very sorry.

In this regard, Zheng Yongnian broke his personal silence today. When he was interviewed by Phoenix.com, he described that the woman with the surname of Yin took the initiative to interview him. When she was about to leave, she asked Zheng Yongnian to introduce her daughter to her friends, butAt that time, Zheng Yongnian's daughter was in the United States, and she was disappointed.So Zheng Yongnian gave a hug to show comfort and farewell.

Zheng Yongnian emphasized that when Miss Yin accused me of hugging her, she touched her ass.But this is not true, I did not formally accept the police's lsquo; seriously warned RSquo;.In Singapore's legal system, the police can issue such warnings regardless of whether the accused is willing.The National University of Singapore is still under investigation, and I can't say more, so as not to interfere with the school's investigation.

【2012 Case】

As for the 2012 incident, a Singapore police spokesman confirmed earlier that he received a non -ritual report on May 14 this year. The incident was October 24, 2012.Police decided not to take further action.The case ended.According to the police's position and various signs, this is unrealistic.

According to the Lianhe Zaobao, the woman named Zeng did not directly accuse Zheng Yongnian when he went to the police station, but used the electronic government password (Singpass) to report online;During the time, the 15th anniversary forum of the East Asian Institute was the day.According to a woman named Zeng, she and Zheng Yongnian took the elevator to the venue at the Retent Hotel in the forum, and Zheng unbuttoned her bra in the elevator room.

In an interview with Phoenix.com, Zheng Yongnian said that some photos showed that the woman named Zeng was wearing a coat that day, and it was impossible to unbutton her bra through several layers of clothes.Coupled with the elevator of the Line Hotel is a glass elevator, you can see the situation in the elevator around the elevator.The venue on the day was on the first floor. Only lunch was on the third floor of the hotel. On the same day, the forum included the then Deputy Prime Minister Shang Damman, the ambassador of many countries in Singapore and local government officials, entrepreneurs and scholars, plus the then researcher at the East Asian Institute.Zheng Yongnian's wife accompanied him throughout him. There was no reason before lunch. He left so many important international guests to go with a woman with the surname of Zeng.

While clarifying the above incident, Zheng Yongnian also provided an email record, showing that the woman named Zeng had sent improper content emails every day in the past two years.In the email, she called Zheng Dou and Baby, claimed to be dumb or baby, and the more email contains sexual hints.(See Figure Figures)

Zheng Yongnian said that he had discussed how to deal with the harassment of a woman named Zeng, but the executive believed that Zeng Women had serious psychological problems and suggested that she go to see a psychologist.He also asked the technicians to ask whether it could block the email of the woman named Zeng, but it could not be blocked because of the internal email of the National University.Therefore, Zheng Yongnian chose not to read, return, or delete it directly.After the woman named Zeng reported to the police, Zheng Yongnian found 51 harassment emails that had been sent to him from deleting the email, and handed all the mail to the Singapore police.He also emphasized that because of other people, some places were inconvenient to show the original evidence, and when legal permission, he could show all evidence./p>

The woman named Zeng left in the East Asian Institute, who took office for 10 years in July this year. She previously answered Lianhe Zaobao inquiries that she recently learned that she was not the only victim, so she called the police in May this year.She also accused herself complained to the management of the institute, but she was always unaware.Lianhe Zaobao has further e -email contacting the woman named Zeng, and has not yet received a response.