Singapore- A Singapore court sentenced retail magnate Tang Wee Sung to one day in prison and fined him 10,000 Singapore dollars (7,000 US dollars) for making a false declaration to get a kidney transplant, local media reported Wednesday.

The court also fined Tang 7,000 Singapore dollars for illegal organ trading.

Tang, 56, who resigned as executive director of CK Tang department store after his guilty plea last week, tried to purchase a kidney for 300,000 Singapore dollars but was caught before the transaction went through.

Tang also admitted falsely declaring the donor, Sulaiman Damanik, 26, was his relative.

Judge Ng Peng Hong said he was lenient and gave Tang a light jail sentence due to his ill health.

Tang's lawyer, Cavinder Bull, told the court last week that his client suffers from a host of medical problems, which range from kidney failure and heart disease to sleep apnoea.

Bull also argued that Tang was a victim of the black market organ trade as he had been approached by middlemen and did not seek to buy a kidney on his own.

The donor, Sulaiman, was fined 1,000 Singapore dollars for organ trading and jailed two weeks for lying under oath, in June.

Wang Chin Sing, the middleman, who arranged for Sulaiman to be brought to Singapore from Indonesia, is to be sentenced Friday. (dpa)