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A man with dual citizenship who earlier pleaded guilty to defaulting on his national service (NS) obligations has been sentenced to four months and three weeks in jail.
Basil Lim Boon Hoh, 28, holds both Singapore and Malaysian citizenships. The court heard that Lim – who is Singaporean by birth – was relocated to Malaysia when he was about a year old, but eventually returned to serve his NS in 2018.
By then, he had defaulted on his NS obligations for almost 10 years.
Lim was sentenced based on two charges under the Enlistment Act. Two other similar charges were taken into account in sentencing.
Court documents state that Lim had remained outside of Singapore without a valid exit permit for nine years, 11 months and 16 days.
His mother is a Malaysian, while his father, with whom he is no longer in contact, is a Singaporean.
While Lim was granted Malaysian citizenship in 2001, his mother still applied for a Singapore NRIC on his behalf in 2007 because she wanted him to have a choice in the future, court documents state.
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