Singapore’s highest court has upheld a S$14,000 (US$10,820) fine handed to opposition leader Pritam Singh for lying to a parliamentary committee.
In February, the Workers’ Party (WP) chief was found guilty of two counts of giving false testimony to a committee scrutinising a lie told by Raeesah Khan, a former member of parliament for the party.
Singh, who pleaded not guilty, received the maximum fine of S$7,000 for each charge following a 13-day trial.
The 49-year-old appealed against the conviction before Justice Steven Chong last month.
On Thursday morning, Singh arrived at the Supreme Court for the verdict.
The criminal case against Singh stemmed from lies Khan told to parliament in August – and doubled down on in October 2021 – about accompanying a rape victim to a police station. Khan later revealed in parliament that the anecdote was false and that she had separately been a victim of sexual assault.
During parliamentary committee hearings in December 2021, Singh testified he had urged Khan to clarify her falsehood on August 8 that year and, in a subsequent conversation on October 3, stressed the need for her to address the lie if it arose in parliament the following day.
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