SINGAPORE - Lawyer Eugene Thuraisingam has rejected allegations that he had said Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam told him that the minister "wields influence over" the Chief Justice of Singapore. In a letter addressed to Mr Shanmugam and made public in a Facebook post on Friday (Nov 6), Mr Thuraisingam wrote that "there is absolutely no truth whatsoever" to the accusation, which also includes claims that Mr Shanmugam had said that he "calls the shots and controls" Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon. The allegation was first made three years ago by lawyer M. Ravi in 2017 in a Facebook post, in which Mr Ravi said he had records of the conversation, and resurfaced by Mr Ravi in another Facebook post on Friday. According to Mr Ravi's version of events, Mr Thuraisingam had related the offending comments over drinks at Chijmes in 2017. He also wrote that Mr Thuraisingam has more than once repeated similar statements made by Mr Shanmugam. "I have heard this thousands of times when he gets drunk," he wrote. Mr Ravi told The Straits Times on Friday night that he stood by his statements and was prepared to bring the matter to court. "From my experience of Menon (Chief Justice Sundaresh...