Lee Hsien Yang directly contradicts PM Lee: LKY's final will not by Suet Fern or any of her colleagues

If you thought it was going to get any less confusing, you were wrong.

Guan Zhen Tan | June 16, 2017, 09:36 AM

Update, June 16, 2:24 pm: Lee Hsien Yang has since posted on his Facebook page again, clarifying with the following statement:

"Stamford Law did not draft any will for LKY. The will was drafted by Kwa Kim Li of Lee & Lee.

Paragraph 7 of the Will was drafted at LKY's direction, and put into language by Lee Suet Fern his daughter in law and when he was satisfied he asked Kim Li to insert it into his will.

On LKY's express instructions in writing, two lawyers from Stamford Law were called upon to witness his signing of the will.

The Estate of LKY instructed Stamford Law to extract probate. Ng Joo Khin's role in that was to read the will to the beneficiaries"

While the Facebook wars among the Lees ebbed slightly overnight, Lee Hsien Yang dropped another bomb on all of us on Friday morning (June 16).

In a short Facebook post, the late Lee Kuan Yew's younger son declared what PM Lee Hsien Loong said about him and his sister Wei Ling not responding to questions about how the last will was made an outright "lie".

Tan Kee Yong — who runs the Cabinet Office and in turn manages the Ministerial Committee — said in his statement on Wednesday that the siblings would only be able to respond to them later this month. So in effect, Hsien Yang was also responding to Tan's statement, stating his answer — for this question at least:

His text reads:

Loong claims, "my siblings had not responded to the Committee's questions about how the last will was prepared and the role that Mrs Lee Suet Fern and lawyers from her legal firm played in preparing the last will."

This is a lie. We replied on 28 Feb, "The Final Will was not drafted by Stamford Law Corporation or Mr. Ng Joo Khin and LHL's claimed recollection to that effect is clearly erroneous." LHL's secret committee ignored it. Besides, we thought this was a "private family matter"?

Clear contradictions between Hsien Loong's and Hsien Yang's statements

Confused? Let's back things up a bit.

Remember the nine questions Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong put out in his summary statutory declaration?

In it, PM Lee posed nine “serious questions” about how the last will of his father was prepared.

One of these questions he asked is:

Why did Lee Suet Fern say, at the reading of the Last Will on 12 April 2015, that she had not wanted to be involved in the preparation of the Last Will and that she had asked Ng Joo Khin (one of the two lawyers from her law firm) to handle the matter, when she had been intimately involved in the events surrounding and leading up to the Last Will?

Then you have Lee Hsien Yang saying that "The Final Will was not drafted by Stamford Law Corporation or Mr Ng Joo Khin and LHL's claimed recollection to that effect is clearly erroneous."

To Lee Hsien Yang, thus, Lee Hsien Loong's claims are false — but what's more intriguing is that we've understood that Lee Suet Fern and Ng Joo Khin had been involved with the Last Will up to this point.

The saga continues, for sure.

Update, June 16, 2:24 pm: Lee Hsien Yang has since posted on his Facebook page again, clarifying with the following statement:

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