SINGAPORE: Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam said on Monday (Jul 3) that he became a tenant at 26 Ridout Road after deciding to put his family home up for sale.

While deciding on the sale, he rented out his family property, the minister told parliament in a ministerial statement, while adding that he was “not making any money from the difference in rentals”.

The scrutiny over the rental of two black-and-white colonial bungalows along Ridout Road by Mr Shanmugam and Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan first arose in early May, following a series of online articles by opposition politician and Reform Party chief Kenneth Jeyaretnam.