Stamford Land sues shareholder for defamatory AGM remarks

SINGAPORE (Sept 10): Stamford Land Corporation is suing shareholder Manohar P. Sabnani for a series of statements made by Sabnani which the group claims to be defamatory, the latest being a letter published by the Business Times on July 31 this year.

In a Sunday filing last night, Stamford says the group and its directors – Ow Chio Kiat, Ow Cheo Guan, Ow Yew Heng, Danny Lim and Mark Anthony James Vaile – are claiming damages from statements which Sabnani made personally during the group’s 2016 and 2018 annual general meetings (AGMs).

On other media platforms, the group and its directors are taking issue with a particular statement which Sabnani wrote in a Facebook post on July 27 and his letter to BT, specifically:

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