“After our statement was issued, the researcher wrote to MHA to say that he had been misquoted by the media,' Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam said in Parliament on Monday (May 8).
SINGAPORE: A researcher, who reportedly made a prediction on the number of high net worth individuals being granted Singapore citizenship this year, has claimed that he was “misquoted by the media”.
Several news outlets, such as The Business Times, Mothership, The Online Citizen and Vulcan Post, later ran articles based on the Zaobao interview.highly misleading with no credible basis “He said, and I quote, ‘This was simply untrue and not at all what was said in the interview’. He said he had ‘never said anything about citizenship’.”
Mr Shanmugam was responding to a parliamentary question from NCMP Leong Mun Wai who had asked for the number of ultra-high net worth individuals and their families who have been granted Singapore citizenship since 2000.
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