PM Lee says siblings' allegations are 'mostly inaccurate'
Singapore
PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong has described the ongoing allegations against him by his two younger siblings, Lee Wei Ling and Lee Hsien Yang, as "mostly inaccurate".
In a statement to the media on Tuesday evening, he reiterated that he will deliver a ministerial statement in Parliament on July 3.
"I will, at that time, deal with the allegations that need to be addressed," he said.
His brief remarks came at the end of another day on which ministers and the two younger Lee siblings continued a public discussion over the fate of the 38 Oxley Road house owned by the late founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew.
In a separate statement, Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean said it was "not true" that the ministerial committee set up to examine…
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