Cabinet Ministers K. Shanmugam and Tan See Leng will both be awarded $230,000 in damages after their nearly two-year-long defamation suit against news company Bloomberg.
Justice Audrey Lim found that real estate reporter Low De Wei, who wrote the article headlined “Singapore mansion deals are increasingly shrouded in secrecy”, in which the ministers were mentioned, knew certain information used was false, or had published without caring whether it was true.
The judge said Bloomberg’s conduct in removing the paywall for the article also demonstrated malice, adding that it was done to make the article accessible to the broader public.
