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Singapore’s Lee family feud: Lee Hsien Yang, wife must choose between fugitive status and returning home to clear name, minister says
- Minister K Shanmugam says Lee Hsien Yang and Lee Suet Fern ‘will have every right to provide explanations’ in perjury probe if they return to Singapore to be interviewed by police
- Lee Hsien Yang has said he will remain in self-exile in a Western country and fears he will not be able to see his sister, who is extremely unwell, face to face again
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Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s younger brother and his wife have “essentially absconded” from the city state amid a police probe for perjury, authorities have said.
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The new details revealed by the Minister for Home Affairs and Law, K Shanmugam, and the Singapore Police Force (SPF) come as the case involving Lee Hsien Yang and his lawyer wife Lee Suet Fern, and the long-running feud within the country’s most prominent political family remain hotly discussed on social media.
Observers have suggested the bickering among the three children of late independence leader Lee Kuan Yew could complicate the country’s politics ahead of a presidential poll later this year and a possible general election in 2024.
On March 3, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean – responding to a lawmaker’s query on the status of the couple – said Lee Hsien Yang and his wife had “refused to attend” a police interview on whether they had perjured themselves during legal proceedings.
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