Lee Hsien Yang: Don't insult my father by saying he didn't know what went into his last will

In response to Indranee Rajah's post suggesting Lee Kuan Yew had five minutes to absorb contents of last will.

Belmont Lay | June 24, 2017, 11:59 PM

Senior Minister of State Indranee Rajah, who is a Tanjong Pagar GRC MP, the late Lee Kuan Yew's former running mate and senior counsel, has up the ante.

In a Facebook post on Saturday night, June 24, she asked some serious questions pertaining to who was the lawyer who prepared Lee Kuan Yew's last will, highlighting the very real issue of a conflict of interests that could point to the heart of the Lee family feud.

This is her post:

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In a rehash of a previously mentioned talking point, Indranee wrote that this was so as the only two lawyers that have been narrowed down who could have drafted the Last Will are:

– Kwa Kim Li, who is the cousin of Lee Hsien Loong, Lee Hsien Yang and Lee Wei Ling

– Lee Suet Fern, who is the wife of Lee Hsien Yang

The circumstances surrounding the crafting and signing of Lee Kuan Yew's last will has since come under intense scrutiny.

So far, Kwa has categorically denied it was her. Lee Suet Fern has not spoken up on this issue.

In Indranee's post, it was suggested that Lee Kuan Yew had only five minutes to absorb the contents of his final will before signing off on it.

- the next day on 17 Dec at 11.05 am 2 lawyers from Stamford Law arrived at 38 Oxley Road. They stayed for 15 minutes, logging out at 11.20 am - this presumably would include the time it would take too get from the guardhouse to Mr Lee's room in the house and back. Mr Lee Hsien Yang in his FB post says that the Will was signed at 11.10 am. Assuming it took 5 minutes to get from the gate to Mr Lee's room, and another 5 minutes to get back to the gate, this would mean Mr Lee had only 5 minutes to read and sign the 7th Will.

So the questions are:

- did he have enough time to read through and absorb the contents of the 7th Will?

- could he have done so in just 5 minutes?

- was he aware that the Demolition Clause had been reinserted? The emails of the previous day did not mention the Demolition Clause.

In direct response to Indranee's post, Lee Hsien Yang has hit back within a span of a few hours, saying it is an insult to suggest Lee Kuan Yew, a top notch lawyer, was unaware of what went into his own will.

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Lee Hsien Yang's post in full:

Lee Hsien Loong is now getting his ministers to repeat his insinuations that Lee Kuan Yew did not understand his own will. They argue that Lee Kuan Yew, a Cambridge-educated lawyer and sitting MP, signed his own will without knowing what was in it. They claim that he initialed beneath the demolition clause, without understanding what it meant in plain English.

This is an insult to a great man.

The 2013 will was no more than a reversion to the 2011 will on Lee Kuan Yew's instructions. Probate has been granted on Lee Kuan Yew's will, so it is final and legally binding. The proper place for Lee Hsien Loong to challenge his father's will was in court.

 

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