Chee admitted to receiving foreign funds

So how did Chee Soon Juan manage to raise a family of three children with a homemaker wife when he does not have a job all these years?

In the Zaobao interview in 2010, Chee was asked if he was bankrolled by foreign money.

The reporter had to ask the question 7 times in different ways to get the answers. Chee was evasive and after much probing, said that he received 'research grants' to do research on 'different things'.

That Chee refused to specify the type of 'research' he was doing during the interview was very telling.

Here's a partial transcript of the interview:

Q: People may find it hard to think you can keep a family, just on books.
A: Whatever I can live on. Sometimes we get help, I mean not help lah. People, relatives and so on and so forth. It does get into a, a...

Q: So people are wrong to say you've been getting money?
A: I don't know, where do you get this. People keep saying. I don't..

Q: If they are wrong, then I can write that they are wrong. I'll say they are wrong.
A: No, I mean, I've always write as an academic, you get research, you apply for research grants. I've gone overseas. I've got some awards for writing. Had stints overseas where fellowships that kind of thing. These things all helped a bit. I write research grants that kind of thing.

Q: Research on democracy?
A: er, other things lah. Not just, different areas as well.

Q: Which areas? Psychology?
A: Sometimes they are all related, human behavior, different things.

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