Singapore: Indian-origin ministers file lawsuit against PM’s brother

Singapore :Two Indian-origin ministers in Singapore have sued Lee Hsien Yang, the younger brother of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, for defamation over allegations they paid below-market rent for two government bungalows. Channel ‘News Asia’ reported on Saturday. told that according to the hearing list released on the Singapore court website, the hearing in this case will be held on Tuesday (September 5) at 9 am.

Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam and External Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan had sent notices to Lee Hsien Yang in July, threatening him if he did not apologise, retract his allegations and return to the colonial-era building on the Redout Road. Shanmugam said in a Facebook post on July 27 that Yang had accused him and Balakrishnan of corrupt practices and working for personal gain.

Shanmugam said that this allegation is wrong. Shanmugam said that he had taken the Ridout Road property on rent as he was preparing to sell the ancestral house and not to make a profit. The issue of renting two properties on Ridout Road came to the fore in early May when opposition politician and head of the Reform Party, Kenneth Jeyarham, questioned whether ministers were paying “less than the fair market value” for the bungalows. Lee Hsien Yang and his wife left the country in July 2022 after refusing to attend a police interview in judicial proceedings regarding the will of their late father and founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. related to lying.