Mr Lee Hsien Yang has paid Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam and Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan more than $600,000 for defaming them in a social media post about their rental of two black-and-white bungalows in Ridout Road. The payment comes after he was taken to...
This comes after Mr Lee Hsien Yang accused ministers K. Shanmugam and Vivian Balakrishnan of getting preferential treatment from the Singapore Land Authority over their rental black-and-white bungalows in Ridout Road.Mr Lee Hsien Yang has paid Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam and Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan more than $600,000 for defaming them in a social media post about their rental of two black-and-white bungalows in Ridout Road.
He also said the late Mr Lee’s family home at 38 Oxley Road is his “significant asset” in Singapore. Mr Lee Hsien Yang said he paid the ministers “in order to try to honour my father’s wishes in connection with his home and to allow Wei Ling, who is ill to continue to stay at 38 Oxley Road”. He was referring to his sister, Dr Lee Wei Ling.
“We urged him to cross-examine us and be cross-examined, in the full view of everyone, so that he can show Singapore, and the rest of the world, that he is right and we are wrong. However, on the first day of the trial when we took the stand, ready to be cross-examined, he was a no show, deciding not to take us on.”
Both ministers sent him legal letters, asking him to apologise, withdraw his allegations, and pay damages of $25,000 each, which would be donated to charity.Mr Lee did not respond to the lawsuits and did not appear in court to defend himself, and the ministers were granted default judgments against him in November 2023.
They noted that Mr Lee had “conveniently omitted to mention” that he owns at least one other asset in Singapore, based on public information.
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