Li Shengwu to pay S$15,000 fine for contempt of court but does not admit guilt

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SINGAPORE: Mr Li Shengwu has announced that he will pay a S$15,000 fine for contempt of court, but said he does 'not admit guilt' in a Facebook ...

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SINGAPORE: Mr Li Shengwu has announced that he will pay a S$15,000 fine for contempt of court, but said he does"not admit guilt" in a Facebook post on Tuesday .

The grandson of Lee Kuan Yew and son of Lee Hsien Yang wrote a day before the deadline to make payment that he had decided to pay the fine "in order to buy some peace and quiet"."Paying the fine avoids giving the Singapore Government an easy excuse to attack me and my family," he wrote. However, he added:"I do not admit guilt. I have never denied writing what I wrote, to my friends in a private Facebook post."

Mr Li, an assistant professor of economics at Harvard University living in the United States, was found guilty of contempt of court last month.He was ordered to pay the fine of S$15,000 within two weeks, or serve a week's jail in default.

Justice Kannan Ramesh said the post"impugns the impartiality of the judiciary", noting that the term"pliant" is defined in the dictionary as"easily bent or inclined to any particular cause".

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