SINGAPORE: A court has awarded Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam and Manpower Minister Tan See Leng damages of S$230,000 (US$177,874) each for defamation by news organisation Bloomberg and its reporter, Mr Low De Wei.
In a judgment released on Tuesday (Jul 14), Justice Audrey Lim found that the December 2024 article about secretive Good Class Bungalow (GCB) transactions had defamed the ministers.
She rejected Bloomberg’s argument that the article merely examined a broader trend of non-caveated GCB transactions, and that the ministers were cited only as examples.
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