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SINGAPORE – A Facebook post on Wednesday (Jan 22) by economist Li Shengwu that he would no longer participate in contempt of court proceedings against him has prompted the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) to say his decision is “a clear acknowledgment that his defence has no merits”.
“The reality is that Mr Li is now facing some serious questions in the hearing, and it is obvious that he knows that his conduct will not stand up to scrutiny,” the AGC said in a statement on Thursday. “He has therefore contrived excuses for running away.”
In 2017, Mr Li – the eldest son of Mr Lee Hsien Yang, who is the younger brother of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong – was served court papers in the United States over a Facebook post he had made earlier that year.
In that July 2017 post, Mr Li wrote that the Singapore Government is “very litigious and has a pliant court system”. It was made in relation to an ongoing family feud between PM Lee and his siblings over the fate of founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s house at 38 Oxley Road.
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