Lee Hsien Yang creates ‘false image’ of urgency of 38 Oxley Road demolition, says Singapore

He Singapore On Friday night, the government responded to Lee Hsien Yang, estranged brother of the country’s former prime minister and youngest son of the modern city-state’s founder, saying he had created a “false image” of the urgency of demolishing the house. of his family.

That same day, Lee had asked current Prime Minister Lawrence Wong to assume the “responsibility” of deciding the fate of the family home of the country’s most powerful political clan.

Local media reported in the evening that the government had responded by saying that Lee Kuan Yew had agreed to have his family home preserved.

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Information and Digital Development said that in 2012, Lee Kuan Yew had “submitted renovation and redevelopment plans for the property” and was “proceeding on the basis that the property will be preserved”.

The spokesperson said Lee Hsien Yang and his wife Lee Suet Fern had chosen not to mention that they had misled Lee Kuan Yew about the execution of his last will.

In 2020, a disciplinary tribunal and Singapore’s high court found that the couple had lied under oath. The findings came after a 31-page report on options regarding the Oxley Road house produced by the National Heritage Board in 2018.

“(The couple’s) affidavits were designed to present a false image. “Several of the lies were quite blatant,” the spokesperson said.