SINGAPORE — Mr Lee Hsien Yang declared on Friday (March 3) that he is considering running for the Elected Presidency, but lawyers said that earlier court findings that he and his wife had lied under oath in judicial proceedings could see him fail to meeting the criteria of being a candidate.
s into the couple for potential offences of giving false evidence in the proceedings over Singapore’s founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s will, the lawyers added.
In a separate statement on Thursday, the Singapore Police Force said that the couple did not turn up for a scheduled interview in July last year, and had said in an email to the police that they would not take part in the investigation. Among other things, the Government pointed out that in his book, Mr Vadaketh wrote that Mr Lee Hsien Yang and Mrs Lee Suet Fern have been “cleared of all suspicion of improper motives or manipulations vis-a-vis Lee Kuan Yew and his will”. However, the Court of Three Judges and the disciplinary tribunal said otherwise, that the couple have not been cleared of all impropriety and had lied under oath and acted dishonestly.
The court and disciplinary tribunal also found that the couple had lied under oath during the proceedings. This is especially so as giving false evidence in a judicial proceeding, obstruction of justice and making false allegations are very serious allegations made, the lawyer added. The lawyers said that under Section 21 of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010, a police officer is empowered to issue a written order to a person within the limits of Singapore, “who appears to be acquainted with any of the facts and circumstances of the case, to attend before him”.
However, Assoc Prof Ferlin Jayatissa of the Singapore University of Social Sciences' School of Law said that it is not clear whether the email communication between the police and the Lee couple was framed as an order to attend, in accordance with Section 21 of the CPC.
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