PETALING JAYA: The lawyer who acts for 1MDB in the state investment arm’s efforts to recover funds via settlements is demanding RM10 million in compensation from an anti-corruption watchdog over their “defamatory” allegations against him on social media.
Rosli Dahlan, the company’s lead counsel, is also demanding that the Centre to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4 Centre) to remove the posts on its Twitter and Facebook.
He also wants C4 Centre to issue an “unequivocal public apology”.
According to a letter of demand sighted by FMT, the allegations posted on C4 Centre’s social media had implied that Rosli was a corrupt person and had siphoned money into PPBM from Goldman Sachs’ US$2.9 billion settlement with the government.
According to the letter of demand, the social media posts by C4 Centre also implied that Rosli was a crony of PPBM and Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.
Rosli’s lawyers said these allegations were “false, patently untrue” and “completely baseless,” among other things.
“They are categorically denied.
“These defamatory statements have far-reaching, irreversible and irreparable effects which cast aspersions on our client,” the letter read, adding that this included injuring Rosli’s reputation and public confidence in him.
Rosli’s lawyers went on to say that despite a denial by PPBM’s secretary-general Hamzah Zainudin and the party’s information chief, Wan Saiful Wan Jan, the non-governmental organisation had “deliberately published” the defamatory statements.
C4 Centre it said had 48 hours to comply with its demands, failing which Rosli would proceed with legal action, including seeking aggravated damages. - FMT
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