A short clip fashioned after the highly-recognisable hacktivist Anonymous video made the rounds online over the weekend, which claimed that the Progress Singapore Party (PSP), led by Tan Cheng Bock, has been "infiltrated by foreign proxies".

Allegedly defamatory content

The video claimed that 10 PSP members have been working with the Singapore People's Party chairman Jose Raymond and historian Thum Ping Tjin, and that they are "funded by western liberal sources".

A former PSP member, Daniel Teo, 36, later confessed to Tan that he was involved with the production of the video and he has since been expelled "with immediate effect" by the party, according to a Telegram message sent to PSP members on Saturday evening, May 2.

SPP's Jose Raymond sends letter of demand to Teo

Some of those named in the video produced by Teo have since made reports to the police.

They included Raymond, who is likely to contest in the Potong Pasir single member constituency (SMC), and other PSP members.

Raymond’s lawyer, Eugene Thuraisingam told Mothership on May 2 that Teo has been served a letter of demand to "admit" that the statements are false, and "to apologise for his actions, to undertake not to repeat them and to pay damages”.

Teo has to respond by May 5.

Raymond has also informed the Electoral Department about this incident.

Not unhappy about being expelled

According to the Straits Times (ST), Teo said that he made the video based on information from an unnamed "acquaintance".

This person gave Teo the information in February.

He then completed and released the video in mid-April.

Teo, however, added that he only sent the video to one person for "fact checking", but the video was leaked.

Teo told ST that he had "accept that he got expelled and am not unhappy".

Teo's expulsion is the second by PSP.

In March, Jan Chan, 30, was expelled after he was reveled as the person behind a Facebook post involving an image that suggested the use of the Bible and the Quran during a toilet paper shortage.

Top photo from PSP/Facebook