The High Court judge said Jom had made three false statements of fact in an article published on July 7, 2023. Read more at straitstimes.com.
into Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam’s and Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan’s rental of the bungalows from the Singapore Land Authority .
“Mr Teo also said that Mr Shanmugam had recused himself, and this meant that he no longer had any duty in the matter. There could thus be no potential or actual conflict of interest,” said the statement. The statement by the ministries clarified that the identity of the tenants had no bearing on the amount spent by SLA on the works it carried out on both properties.
Justice Thean said the subject material could have multiple meanings, one of which, as The Inquiry submits, “is to take ‘at face value’ the three bare facts that would shock the reader”. “The flow of the text within the article and its conclusion is an assertion that conflicts of interest caused SLA to spend more than $1m in taxpayer money to renovate the large properties despite the low rental return,” she added.
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