SINGAPORE — Lee Hsien Yang has been ordered by the High Court to pay $200,000 each to Cabinet ministers K. Shanmugam and Vivian Balakrishnan for defaming them in a public post on his Facebook page about their rental of state bungalows in Ridout Road. Shanmugam, who is Law and Home Affairs Minister, and Dr Balakrishnan, who is Foreign Minister, had.
Lee Hsien Yang ordered to pay $400k in defamation damages to Shanmugam, Vivian over Ridout Road rentals
Lee is the younger son of founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew and brother of Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong. The judge said Shanmugam and Dr Balakrishnan are public leaders and persons of the highest integrity who have a high standing, while Lee is well-known in Singapore. Justice Goh also found that Lee had acted with malice because he "knew that the offending words were false, that he published them recklessly, and/or without considering or caring whether they are true or not".
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