Singapore Ministers file defamation suits against media company, reporter
The HinduTwo Singapore Ministers have filed defamation suits against media company Bloomberg and one of its journalists over a story related to rental of a state-owned bungalow, a media report said on Wednesday. The case comes two months after Mr. Shanmugam and Mr. Tan said they would act against Bloomberg and other media outlets for publishing statements concerning their property transactions, which the Ministers consider libellous. The statements were produced in a December 12 Bloomberg article on good class bungalow transactions in Singapore with the headline, “Singapore mansion deals are increasingly shrouded in secrecy.” The article focused on GCB deals inked from January to early December 2024. The Ministry of Law said the false statements in Bloomberg’s article “attack the transparency of property transactions in Singapore” and “give the impression that Singapore does not have a robust legal framework to require disclosure of information to the Government in GCB transactions,” as reported by The Straits Times.
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