According to local business Sam Goi, the class sizes of the personal dinners involving convicted cash launderer Su Haijin, transport minister Chee Hong Tat, labor chief Ng Chee Meng, and health minister Ong Ye Kung complied with the appropriate COVID-19 healthy management measures at the time.
Mr. Goi claimed in a statement to the media on Friday ( May 9 ) that he had checked his records and given the dates for each of the three dinners he had previously claimed he had organized and paid for.
This comes after Charles Yeo, a previous Reform Party chair and criminal lawyer, posted pictures of the meetings digitally.
Mr. Goi claimed that Mr. Chee and the dinner were held on November 19, 2020, at a time when there was a five-person cultural gathering ban in Singapore. There were five people in the photo of this meeting.
On May 1, 2021, Mr. Ng’s supper was held with only eight people for social groups. In the picture of this meeting, simply Mr. Ng and Su were visible.
According to Mr. Goi, the breakfast with Mr. Ong took place on May 10, 2022. In the photo of this occasion, there were 14 people. Singapore had no established class size cap at the time.
According to Mr. Goi, the owner and executive chairman of Tee Yih Jia Food Manufacturing,” the class size on each situation was in full conformity with the appropriate COVID safe control measures at the materials time.”
Mr. Goi had previously told Bloomberg that the supper with Mr. Ng occurred at some point in” sometime in 2020,” with Bloomberg reporting that all three dinners occurred before Singapore put in place any COVID-19 regulations that the nation experienced that time.