Foreign agent released from detention

A LOCAL man who spied on the United States for a foreign state was released here from detention under the Internal Security Act (ISA).The Internal Security Department (ISD) said the threat Dickson Yeo (pic) posed had been neutralised.

The 40-year-old was arrested in the US in November 2019 and deported to Singapore on Dec 30, where he was immediately arrested.He was then detained under the ISA in January this year for acting as a paid agent for a foreign state which ISD did not name.