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Lee Hsien Yang creating ‘false picture’ of demolition urgency for 38 Oxley Road, Singapore says

Lee had earlier in the day called on current Prime Minister Lawrence Wong to take “responsibility” in deciding on the fate of the family home of the country’s most powerful political clan.

Local media reported in the evening that the government in response had said Lee Kuan Yew had accepted that his family home might be preserved.

A spokesman from the Ministry of Digital Development and Information 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 spokesman said Lee Hsien Yang and his wife Lee Suet Fern had chosen not to mention that they had misled Lee Kuan Yew on the execution of his last will.

A disciplinary tribunal and the apex court in Singapore in 2020 found the couple to have lied under oath. The findings came after a 31-page report on options regarding the Oxley Road house by the National Heritage Board in 2018.

“The affidavits [by the couple] were contrived to present a false picture. Several of the lies were quite blatant,” the spokesman said.

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