PARIS (Reuters) -The fee France's gambling provider Française des Jeux (FDJ) pays for its monopoly to operate lottery games and sports betting is in line with competition rules after adjustments, the European Commission said on Thursday.
The Government has refuted Lee Hsien Yang 's claims that Singapore has become more repressive and that corruption here has worsened. - Photo: ST file
Lee Hsien Yang, who was granted political asylum in the UK in August 2024, claimed in his interview with the American news agency that the authorities here has “weaponised” the country’s laws against critics, and that a growing number of Singaporeans are fleeing abroad to seek protection from the government.
It said that what AP should consider when assessing the credibility of his claims were conclusions from a Disciplinary Tribunal and the Court of Three Judges in 2020. It found the Lee Hsien Yang and his wife Lee Suet Fern presented “an elaborate edifice of lies” on the execution of Lee Kuan Yew’s last will, that they had misled the late Lee in its execution, and lied under oath.
* On Keppel Offshore and Marine’s corruption case in Brazil, the Government said this was addressed in Parliament in February 2023. Full payments of fines were made to the Brazilian authorities, and Seatrium, the merged entity of Keppel Offshore and Marine and Sembcorp Marine, is currently in discussions with the public prosecutor on a deferred prosecution agreement.
The Government cited the case involving former transport minister S. Iswaran, too. The 62-year-old was sentenced to 12 months’ jail on Oct 3 for accepting gifts as a public servant and obstructing justice. The Government also pointed to Singapore’s good performance in various global rankings, including the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, as evidence of its firm stance against corruption.
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