AirAsia Berhad is suing Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board chairman Wee Choo Keong for publishing defamatory statements on his blog. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, July 9, 2015.
AirAsia Berhad has filed a suit against the newly appointed chairman of The Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board for publishing “false and malicious” statements against the budget airline on his blog in April.
It said today Wee Choo Keong, who took over from Tan Sri Ng Yen Yen, failed to respond to the letter it sent demanding a retraction of the posting.
"Wee has regularly published many false, misleading and disparaging statements on the blog, including an article entitled 'Why Liow & MAHB encouraged AirAsia to owe RM50 million PSC/Airport Tax?' on April 20, 2015," AirAsia said in a statement.
It said Wee knowingly and intentionally published these statements that were defamatory and damaging.
"AirAsia has always operated our business professionally including in our dealings with the Regulators. The many misleading and defamatory statements published by Wee are intended to mislead the public and damage our reputation," said the airline's regional legal head Amir Faezal Zakaria.
"AirAsia has filed a suit because our reputation has been damaged by this conduct in addition to our efforts to correct the disinformation published about AirAsia."
Wee was elected as Kuala Lumpur Bandar (now Bukit Bintang) MP in 1990 but was removed from his seat after a court case. He was dismissed from DAP eight years later and formed the Malaysian Democratic Party.
He lost in the 2004 election. But after joining PKR in 2008, he won the Wangsa Maju seat in the election that year. Wee, who is a lawyer by profession, left PKR in 2010 and became a "Barisan Nasional-friendly independent".
The 61-year-old was appointed as the tourism board head by Tourism and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz on June 17.
- TMI
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