SINGAPORE — A High Court judge has rejected a bid by former transport minister S. Iswaran to compel the prosecution to provide conditioned statements of all the 56 witnesses it has lined up for his upcoming trial on 35 charges.
S. Iswaran leaving the High Court on July 5, 2024.
He added that he was unable to accept defence arguments that there was an abuse of process or serious injustice caused to Iswaran in this case. The prosecution said that since it does not intend to rely on conditioned statements for Iswaran's trial, none were recorded from the witnesses, and thus, none were provided to the defence.The material it has disclosed include 66 statements recorded from Iswaran and documentary evidence totalling 1,156 pages, as well as 37 statements recorded from seven witnesses during investigations by the Corrupt Practices Investigations Bureau.
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