The East Asia Forum article, according to the Prime Minister’s Office( PMO ),” makes the statements that( Mr. Lee ) conflated marital infidelity and corruption.”
After it was revealed that the two had an affair, Speaker Tan Chuan Jin and Member of Parliament Cheng Li Hui andnbsp resigned from both parliament and the People’s Action Party( PAP ) in July.
Senior Workers’ Party ( WP ) members Leon Perera and Nicole Seah also left the opposition party that week after their extramarital affair became public.
S Iswaran, the transport minister, was also detained by CPIB in July as part of an investigation into & nbsp billionaire Ong Beng Seng, who is credited with bringing Formula One racing to Singapore.
According to PMO, the article claimed that Mr. Lee” equated” the & nbsp, PAP’s problems with the marriage infidelity incident in the WP.
This is misleading, and Mr. Lee did not mix up the problems, according to PMO.
Mr. Lee expressed his opinions on the CPIB research and illicit interests” subject to a query posed to him by the internet” at he spoke at the press conference on July 17.
According to PMO, any parallel mention of the CPIB studies and extramarital affairs is only relevant to how close the incidents were made people, not their actual content.
The government” took different approaches towards allegations of corruption or other wrongdoing in the discharge of official duties, on the one hand, and cases involving misconduct in personal lives ,” Mr. Lee clarified in an a & nbsp ministerial statement on August 2. In addition, & nbsp,
He had twice mentioned the WP situation in the same speech, but none of them, according to PMO, attempted to draw a comparison between the PAP’s problems and the WestPs ‘.
” CPIB… HAS TO BE RESPONSIBLE TO SOMEONE.”
The article in question also & nbsp, according to PMO,” conveys that CPIB is not independent in deciding whether to carry out investigations because it reports directly to the Prime Minister alone, and( that) the PM alone has the power to refuse approval for the investigation to be conducted.”
It stated that” in that it & nbsp, is accountable to the Prime Minister ,” CPIB reports directly to him or her.
” CPIB, like all other agencies, must answer to a third party.” The East Asia Forum piece & nbsp did not mention any additional safeguards put in place to ensure CPIB’s independence, according to PMO, adding that a state agency cannot function without any oversight or governance.