Lee Hsien Yang and wife ‘absconded’
March 20th, 2023 | 
Author: Mr Shanmugam told the House that the general principle is that law enforcement agencies do not disclose the names of individuals who have been, or are being investigated, but there are exceptions.
One example is where the offender has absconded or left the jurisdiction while investigations are ongoing. A second would be where the facts of the case and the individuals who may have committed the alleged offences are already publicly known.
Thirdly, the names may be made public if there is some public interest in disclosing that investigations are underway.
“Such disclosure has to be weighed against possible prejudice to the individuals concerned,” said Mr Shanmugam.
But this does not mean that police will automatically publish the names of the individuals under investigations, if their names had been made public in other earlier proceedings, Mr Shanmugam added. The authorities will have to take into account many other factors.
Minister Shanmugam said:
“Thirdly, the names may be made public if there is some public interest in disclosing that investigations are underway.”
“Public interest” is a phrase that defies interpretation and understanding. Who knows what the public is interested in? Should there be referendums and surveys before the ministers can say that there is public interest? Even with surveys and referendums, it is hard to ascertain whether there is or is not public interest as most people are not interested. The Swiss have referendums for everything. But how many Swiss can be bothered with the stacks of documents they receive every week?
I think the ministers should come clean and take responsibility for what they do. If they choose to disclose the names of those investigated, then say that they have the power to do so. There is no need to justify.
The Oxley saga has been going on since Lee Kuan Yew’s death in 2015. I don’t think anyone is interested in the preservation or destruction of the house. The more this topic is being trumpeted in parliament or elsewhere, the more Singaporeans are embarrassed that such a family dispute is now known all over the world. Instead of building bridges and making attempts to reconcile the siblings, the ministers are in fact tearing the family even further apart.
Responsible leaders do not behave in this way. The world is nearly at war. They should be thinking of how to save us from entering another world war and not fanning the fires in family disputes.
Teo Soh Lung
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remember the case of the Singapore Romanian diplomat hit and run accident? why was he allowed to be absconded? how did mas selamat escape till he could cross over to malaysia? U mean the police doesnt know that Lee Hsien Yang, Lee Suet Fern were preparing to leave? assuming there is a valid case against them. Why was there no restriction on them leaving the country if they were being investigated? SO was this whole thing just a drama to make them leave?
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Guess to freely *abscond* is no easy feat.
Btw,lets look past this FAMILEE incident.
Go settle in Family Courts.
Why impose on State resources?
Its just a house.
Its not the Istana at least?
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Why did they use more than 500m as settlement fees if nothing wrong was done?
500m turnover is the same amount to qualify a prez candidate on the land, how can this be brushed aside? If that corrupt bureau cannot do the job, then they have to be sacked and replaced. If the law minister lets the corrupt bureau off, then he has to be sacked. How about asking the law minister to pay each local 500m even if he claims he has done nothing wrong? Who signed for the the settlements and bribery releases?
Anyone must be dumb to buy their cock and bull stories with taxpayers’ money.
I am sick of the oxley story. Who benefits and loses big time from the tussle? The answers are obvious.
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A good waste of tax payers money is what this is.
Why are some people shielded from prosecution if they could not clear their names?
Not innocent, but not found guilty. Make up your mind!
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All that big talk for somebody’s brother to come forward and clear his name is nothing but a farce.
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Sick of listening to their long story lies.LKY should have burnt the damned house down.His children are suffering because of his house.His youngest son is being made a fugitive by the PAP ministers who are paid by taxpayers and not the PM.The judges who are appointed by the PMOs office are also not stepping down. If this was Malaysia,the Bar Council, present and past Bar Council Presidents,former judges and those who have knowledge in Law would have made public statements.The silence only shows we have a Mohammed Gaddafi in office and we citizens need to use our votes to end this tyranny. LHL sold the house to his brother for about $30 over million and then sets up a committee to try to take back the house.Why didn’t he just hold onto the house when he was the beneficiary ? It was because LKY had inserted a clause that the house had to be demolished.Many of us are witnesses to LKY’s wish.He said it in Public.The committee should be dismantled in Public interest and the PM should handle this on his own at his own cost.
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Not forgetting about that previous state sponsored iPhone hack on a prominent Opposition party member.
She did the right thing by bringing up that serious matter in Parliament as there is some public interest.
After all, the tax paying public deserve to know how their hard earned money is being spent.
But you know who tried to de-escalate the situation after it has already blown up in his face.
And now, he puts on the poker face again. He probably never takes it off, even when he sleeps.
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“Journalist who played key role in uncovering 1MDB scandal ‘briefly detained’ by Singapore authorities”
https://sg.news.bullshitter.com/journalist-played-key-role-uncovering-023034479.html
A visiting foreign journalist with nothing to do with this gamen gets ‘detained’, while a Singaporean couple under official investigation is allowed to ‘flee’ the country.
What a joke this country has become.
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As usual, this is how intellectual prostitutes earn their daily bread in a reactive manner.
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/sarawak-report-editor-clare-rewcastle-brown-interviewed-not-detained-at-singapore
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It’s a run road Circus show.
In the end both hug each other!
Get it!
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95% of $inkies will agree with this.
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The claim is that LHY absconded. The WILl is a private matter between the executor and the beneficiaries.LHL had ample time to challenge the WILL in Court.He failed to do it.So why is LHY being asked to attend Court? It is regrettable that LHY and LSF had to leave Singapore though both are true blue Singaporeans. Najib’s wife who is a convicted criminal has been given
her passport to enter Singapore to visit her grandchild.Why are all these undesirable, unwanted people in Singapore when a son of the first PM of Singapore is forced to leave the State because of persecution?
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Can the lawmakers in Parliament decide how they want to run the country?
1) by rule of the Law, where all are equally subjected to regulations, rules, and laws here with no exception. Or
2) Community based laws, which is same as rule by the PAP Laws.
Parliament must decide once and for all. We cannot have both (1) and (2).
So often and so much time is wasted in Parliament debating over the finer point of the law. All to no avail because there is no reference point on the law the lawmakers are arguing over.
I am not suggesting this set of laws over that set of laws.
End of the day, Lawmakers must decide to do the right thing. The people have given you the power to enact laws and apply them equally and uniformly, with no exception.
It’s unacceptable, in the public interests, even with a single exception.
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