SINGAPORE – Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam and Manpower Minister Tan See Leng have arrived at the Supreme Court building on April 7 for the start of their defamation trial against financial news provider Bloomberg.
Dr Tan walked into the courtroom just past 9.30am, and Mr Shanmugam arrived about 15 minutes later.
The case involves statements that appeared in a Dec 12, 2024 Bloomberg article on good class bungalow (GCB) transactions in Singapore headlined “Singapore mansion deals are increasingly shrouded in secrecy”.
The ministers contended that the article was understood to falsely mean that they had taken advantage of there being no checks and balances or disclosure requirements to carry out their property dealings in a non-transparent manner.
