This latest legal battle adds another chapter to the long-standing public feud between the Lee brothers, which became public in 2017.
SINGAPORE: Lee Hsien Yang, the estranged younger brother of former Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, has been directed by a court to pay S$400,000 to two ministers in a defamation lawsuit, according to a judgment released on Friday .
The judge wrote that the allegations “go towards their personal integrity, professional reputation, honour, and core attributes of their personalities.” In July 2023, the government ordered Mr Lee to amend the post that the law ministry claimed contained inaccuracies regarding the controversy. The defamation suit was initiated after Mr Lee declined to retract what he said and reaffirmed his stance in another social media post.Mr Lee publicly challenged the Ministers to file a defamation case in the UK, since that it is where he was when he published the contentious posts, but the lawsuit proceeded in the Singapore courts.
Commenting on the judgment, Mr Lee told Reuters: “The facts are the facts. The two ministers claim to have wanted to clear their names yet declined offers to take this to a London court or an independent international tribunal.”
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