A heated exchange in Parliament between Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam and NonConstituency MP (NCMP) Leong Mun Wai ended with Mr Leong withdrawing an allegation over a bribery case linked to Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M).
He also apologised to Speaker Tan Chuan-Jin.
The next steps are now being considered in response to Mr Leong breaching parliamentary procedures and rules, Mr Shanmugam said on Wednesday.
In a ministerial statement, Mr Shanmugam said that Mr Leong had acted in a "really unparliamentary and not acceptable" manner by putting out a Facebook post that contained improper and untrue statements following a parliamentary debate on Monday.
In the earlier debate, Mr Shanmugam had addressed a question filed by Mr Leong on why the Ministry of Home Affairs had named and disclosed that Mr Lee Hsien Yang and his wife, Mrs Lee Suet Fern, were being investigated, when police did not name the six former management staff of Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) who were being investigated for corruption.
Mr Shanmugam said on Wednesday that after he gave his response, Mr Leong had the chance to raise further questions in Parliament. Instead, the Progress Singapore Party (PSP) NCMP later put up a Facebook post that made serious allegations.
These included the claim that the Law Minister was trying to "muddy the waters" by bringing up the case of former domestic worker Parti Liyani, where police had disclosed that they were investigating her employer's son Karl Liew for giving false evidence.
Mr Shanmugam said the Facebook post had cast aspersions on him as well as Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean.
Mr Leong's statements that the Keppel O&M staff were "actually guilty" were also unsubstantiated, said Mr Shanmugam, who asked Mr Leong to delete his Facebook post, withdraw his statements and make an apology.
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