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18-01-2024, 11:54 PM
https://time.com/6294712/singapore-corru...beng-seng/
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What past controversy is he associated with?
This isn’t the first time Ong has been embroiled in controversies surrounding politicians from Singapore’s ruling party. In 1996, then deputy prime minister Lee Hsien Loong and his father Lee Kuan Yew were cleared in an inquiry over claims of impropriety on discounts received for four luxury apartments developed by the tycoon’s Hotel Properties.
“My concern was that Ong Beng Seng, being a shrewd businessman, like all developers, might be using them, doing a favor for them, without their knowing it,” former prime minister Goh Chok Tong wrote in his book Standing Tall: The Goh Chok Tong Years, Volume 2. He was referring to the inquiry into the Nassim Jade apartment purchases by the Lees. “And I knew that Ong Beng Seng was a friend of Lee Kuan Yew.”
Goh wrote that the elder Lee, Singapore’s first prime minister, had similar initial doubts about Ong. The late Lee Kuan Yew later praised Ong as a “straightforward businessman who should not be punished for the incident,” according to Goh’s book.
Seem like OBS using the same tactics on isawaran
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What past controversy is he associated with?
This isn’t the first time Ong has been embroiled in controversies surrounding politicians from Singapore’s ruling party. In 1996, then deputy prime minister Lee Hsien Loong and his father Lee Kuan Yew were cleared in an inquiry over claims of impropriety on discounts received for four luxury apartments developed by the tycoon’s Hotel Properties.
“My concern was that Ong Beng Seng, being a shrewd businessman, like all developers, might be using them, doing a favor for them, without their knowing it,” former prime minister Goh Chok Tong wrote in his book Standing Tall: The Goh Chok Tong Years, Volume 2. He was referring to the inquiry into the Nassim Jade apartment purchases by the Lees. “And I knew that Ong Beng Seng was a friend of Lee Kuan Yew.”
Goh wrote that the elder Lee, Singapore’s first prime minister, had similar initial doubts about Ong. The late Lee Kuan Yew later praised Ong as a “straightforward businessman who should not be punished for the incident,” according to Goh’s book.
Seem like OBS using the same tactics on isawaran
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