The Leader of the Opposition is battling two charges of lying to a parliamentary committee looking into the conduct of then Workers' Party MP Raeesah Khan.
The Leader of the Opposition is battling two charges of lying to a parliamentary committee looking into the conduct of then Workers' Party MP Raeesah Khan .New: You can now listen to articles.opened on Monday with prosecutors setting out the details of their case against the Workers' Party secretary-general for the first time.
While being examined before the COP in the public hearing room at Parliament House in December 2021, Singh is accused of falsely testifying that: Singh found out that the anecdote was not true in a phone call with Ms Khan on Aug 7, 2021, after which he hung up the phone, according to a statement of facts agreed between the prosecution and defence.
The prosecutor contended that this was consistent with the fact that between Aug 8 and Oct 3, 2021, Singh and Ms Khan never discussed her lie again, nor that it ought to be clarified in parliament. "By doing so, intentionally guided Ms Khan to continue to maintain the untruth even if the issue came up the next day in parliament," said Mr Ang.
On Monday, the prosecution also revealed that former WP chief Low Thia Khiang, who was the party's secretary-general from 2001 to 2018, will be one of its witnesses. They are set to testify over the 16 days of trial that have been fixed so far. The trial is being heard at the State Courts before Deputy Principal District Judge Luke Tan and will run for two weeks in October, with further trial dates in November.
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