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 before a packed courtroom that included WP MPs Gerald Giam and Fadli Fawzi.
In dismissing the appeal, the judge found that Singh “did not hold” an intention for Khan to come clean about the untruth for at least two months – when he found out about the lie and when it was decided Khan would come clean.
