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Lee Hsien Yang and wife under police probe for lying about will
The Straits Times|March 03, 2023
The police have opened investigations into Mr Lee Hsien Yang and his wife Lee Suet Fern for potential offences of giving false evidence in judicial proceedings, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean told Parliament on Thursday.
- Tham Yuen-C
Lee Hsien Yang and wife under police probe for lying about will

The couple have left Singapore after refusing to go for a police interview that they had initially agreed to attend, Mr Teo said in a written reply.

The Court of Three Judges and a disciplinary tribunal had in 2020 found that the couple had lied under oath during disciplinary proceedings against Mrs Lee over her handling of founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew's last will.

Mrs Lee had been referred to a disciplinary tribunal by the Law Society over her role in the preparation and execution of the last will of the late Mr Lee, her fatherin-law, who died on March 23, 2015, at the age of 91.

His last will differed from his sixth and penultimate will in significant ways, and did not contain some changes he had wanted and discussed with his lawyer Kwa Kim Li four days earlier.

Among the differences was a demolition clause - relating to the demolition of his 38 Oxley Road house after his death which had not been in the sixth or penultimate will but was in the last.

This clause became a sticking point between the late Mr Lee's children, Mr Lee Hsien Yang, Dr Lee Wei Ling, and their brother, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Mrs Lee's role in the will had sparked a complaint by the Attorney-General's Chambers to the Law Society about possible professional misconduct on her part, and a disciplinary tribunal was convened to hear the case.

After finding her guilty of grossly improper professional conduct, the tribunal referred the case to the Court of Three Judges, the highest disciplinary body to deal with lawyers' misconduct.

Mr Teo, who headed a ministerial committee in 2016 to look into what to do with 38 Oxley Road, noted on Thursday that both the court and the tribunal had found that Mr Lee Hsien Yang and Mrs Lee lied under oath.

This story is from the March 03, 2023 edition of The Straits Times.

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