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3 key areas Raeesah Khan’s testimony differs from Workers’ Party chief Pritam Singh’s account

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SINGAPORE - Further questions have been raised about the incident involving former Sengkang GRC MP Raeesah Khan lying in Parliament, after she and other Workers' Party members gave evidence to a parliamentary committee on Thursday (Dec 2) and Friday. Ms Khan told the Committee of Privileges chaired by Speaker Tan Chuan-Jin that senior WP leaders Pritam Singh, Sylvia Lim and Faisal Manap had advised her to stick to the lie she had told in Parliament on Aug 3. This was among a number of revelations contained in a special report that the committee presented to Parliament on Friday. Here are three key areas where differences arose between what Ms Khan and the other WP members told the committee and what Mr Singh said during a press conference on Thursday. 1. On the WP disciplinary panel and Ms Khan's resignation Mr Singh told the media that the WP central executive committee (CEC) on Nov 2 had agreed to form a disciplinary panel to "look into the admissions made by Raeesah Khan" the day before. The CEC later deliberated the panel's recommendations and "voted overwhelmingly" that Ms Khan would have been expected to resign, or she would be expelled, he said. Ms Khan, as well as WP member...

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WP leaders told by Raeesah Khan in August she had lied, decided to give her time to deal with matter: Pritam Singh

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SINGAPORE - Leaders of the Workers' Party (WP) were told by their MP Raeesah Khan that she had lied in Parliament, about a week after she made false statements about a sexual assault case in a speech on Aug 3. But the party leaders decided to give her time to deal with the matter because she had also told them she had been a sexual assault victim herself, and had not told her family about it, WP chief Pritam Singh said on Thursday (Dec 2). At the next session of Parliament that she was able to attend, in October, Ms Khan was supposed to clarify the matter. But she did not and, in fact, repeated untruths that were wholly inconsistent with the revelations she had shared with WP leaders Mr Singh, WP chair Sylvia Lim and vice-chair Faisal Manap. Speaking at a press conference two days after the WP announced Ms Khan's resignation from the party and as an MP, Mr Singh said he had asked her to make her best efforts to contact the victim or to contact the individuals involved in the sexual assault case. “Initially, Raeesah stuck to her untruth in her communication with me,” said Mr Singh at a the press conference at the WP headquarters in Geylang. “After being repeatedly pressed, a number ...

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Warrant of arrest issued against elderly man accused of assaulting bus driver

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SINGAPORE - An elderly man accused of assaulting a bus driver last month had a warrant of arrest issued against him after he failed to turn up in a district court on Wednesday (Dec 1). Ahmad Robinson, 70, who was expected to be handed two more charges for a drug-related crime and an offence under the Covid-19 (Temporary Measures) Act, failed to appear before District Judge Terence Tay. A review on matters involving his warrant of arrest will take place in March next year. Ahmad and Aziz Khan Sher Khan, 61, are said to have failed to wear their masks properly when they boarded bus service 2 at around 11am on Nov 2. The police said in an earlier statement that the two Singaporean men became unhappy when bus driver Hew Kim Keong highlighted the matter to them. The pair then allegedly rained blows on Mr Hew, causing him to suffer a nasal bone fracture. Police arrested Ahmad and Khan later that day. On Nov 3, they were each charged with one count of voluntarily causing grievous hurt to Mr Hew. Khan was on Wednesday handed two more charges - one count each of theft as well as an offence under the Covid-19 (Temporary Measures) Act over his alleged failure to don a mask properly on the bus...

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Raeesah Khan resigns from WP: Parliament’s Committee of Privileges to continue probe into admission of lying

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SINGAPORE - The Committee of Privileges looking into the complaint against former Workers' Party MP Raeesah Khan for lying in Parliament will continue with its work, the Clerk of Parliament said on Wednesday (Dec 1). The committee will also be presenting its report to Parliament in due course. The Clerk of Parliament's Office made these points in a statement after Ms Raeesah sent a letter of resignation as MP for Sengkang GRC to Speaker of Parliament Tan Chuan-Jin at 10.47pm on Tuesday. MPs were informed of Ms Khan's resignation on Wednesday, the clerk said. The clerk added that the Parliament (Privileges, Immunities and Powers) Act regulates the conduct of MPs and other people in connection with its proceedings, and can summon any person to appear before the committee to give evidence at any time before the conclusion of its report. Ms Khan, 27, had on Nov 1 admitted to lying in Parliament at an earlier sitting about details of a sexual assault case that she had alleged was mishandled by the police. Following her admission, Leader of the House Indranee Rajah raised an official complaint against Ms Khan for breaching her parliamentary privilege, and asked for the matter to be refer...

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Aziz Khan at the Summit of Bangladesh’s infrastructure

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In so many ways, the success story of Mr Muhammed Aziz Khan, chairman of Summit Group, Bangladesh's largest infrastructure conglomerate, is interwoven with the modern history of his country. Soon after gaining independence from Britain in 1947 amid the blood-soaked Partition of India, as the eastern wing of new country Pakistan, Bengali nationalism began asserting itself against the western twin - separated by the Indian heartland in the middle. A series of missteps by Islamabad and increasing repression of Bengalis by the Punjabi-dominated Pakistani armed forces set the stage for a liberation movement that, in 1971, saw East Pakistan morphing into the new nation of Bangladesh. Please subscribe or log in to continue reading the full article. Get unlimited access to all stories at $0.99/month Latest headlines and exclusive stories In-depth analyses and award-winning multimedia content Get access to all with our no-contract promotional package at only $0.99/month for the first 3 months* Subscribe now *Terms and conditions apply.

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Credit Suisse settles spying case with former wealth chief Khan

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(BLOOMBERG) - Credit Suisse Group said it reached a settlement with its former wealth-management executive Iqbal Khan and a private detective firm, calling to a close a spying scandal that rocked one of Europe's biggest lenders and ultimately led to the ouster of its chief executive officer Tidjane Thiam last year. "All involved parties have agreed to settle, and this matter is now closed," a spokesperson for the bank said on Sunday, confirming that it had reached a settlement with Khan, his wife and the private detective firm Investigo. No further details were disclosed. A probe by Swiss financial regulator, Finma, over the company's surveillance activities is ongoing. In 2019, Credit Suisse hired a private investigator to spy on Khan, once seen as a potential successor to the CEO before defecting to rival UBS Group. The incident culminated in a physical confrontation in downtown Zurich between Khan and the men who followed him, shaking Switzerland's financial world and setting off investigations by Zurich's prosecutor and the company's board of directors. The settlement would close a chapter for Credit Suisse as it seeks to move past a string of recent scandals. It faces an exodu...