Foreign pressure not behind money laundering arrests and CPIB probe involving Iswaran: Law Ministry

The clarifications were made by MinLaw in response to posts by Reform Party leader Kenneth Jeyaretnam on Facebook and X, formerly known as Twitter.

Mr Jeyaretnam claimed that the arrests of the 10 foreign nationals were a result of China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and China’s pressure on Singapore. He also claimed the probe into Mr Iswaran and property tycoon MrAdditionally, the opposition politician claimed in a Facebook post that the rental rates paid by Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam and Foreign Affairs minister Vivian Balakrishnan for the Ridout Road properties are"locked in over nine years”.

“When the tenancies of the two properties were up for renewal after the initial three years, a revaluation was carried out by professional valuers to peg the rentals to the prevailing market rate,” it said. “This valuation was based on market comparables.” MinLaw added that the property at 26 Ridout Road was renewed in June 2021, for three years with the rent maintained at S$26,500 a month, while 31 Ridout Road was renewed in October 2022, with the rent increased by $1,000 to S$20,000 a month.

The ministry reiterated these figures were laid out in the various publicly available materials, includingSecond Minister for Law Edwin Tong instructed the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act Office to issue a correction direction to Mr Jeyaretnam - his third time in just over a month.

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