Expelled PSP member apologises to SPP chairman over allegations in video
SINGAPORE — Expelled Progress Singapore Party (PSP) member Daniel Teo has made a written apology to Singapore People’s Party (SPP) chairman Jose Raymond.
Teo, 36, had claimed in an anonymous video in April that 10 PSP members were working with Raymond and historian Thum Ping Tjin while “funded by Western liberal sources”.
He was expelled by PSP secretary-general Tan Cheng Bock on 1 May, after admitting that he had made the video.
Apology on Facebook page
On Tuesday (5 May), Teo – who works in a marine infrastructure firm – posted on his Facebook page a photo of his written apology to Raymond on the allegations made in the video.
“I admit and acknowledge that these allegations are false and completely without foundation, and I unreservedly withdraw them,” he wrote in his apology.
“I unreservedly apologise to Mr Jose Raymond for the distress and embarrassment caused to him by these false allegations. I undertake not to make any further allegations to the same or similar effect.”
Donation to charity fund
Raymond also put up a post on his Facebook page on Wednesday, thanking his lawyer Eugene Thuraisingam for taking swift and immediate action to seek redress over the false allegations.
He said in his post that he has asked Teo to make a donation to The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund, in lieu of taking up an advertisement apology in the national broadsheet. The damages Raymond initially demanded will be waived as a gesture of goodwill.
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