KUALA LUMPUR – Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s suit against Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin will begin in August next year at the high court here.
The suit is related to an allegedly slanderous speech about Anwar receiving a salary of RM15 million while serving as the Selangor economic advisor.
The prime minister’s counsel, Datuk S.N. Nair, said that judicial commissioner Roz Mawar Rozain set a nine-day trial for August 5, 6, 7, 12 to 14, and 26 to 28 during today’s case management proceedings.
“The court also ordered both parties to file interlocutory applications by June 15, 2023 and set case management for June 21, 2023,” he told reporters.
Anwar was also represented by another lawyer, Jaden Phoon Wai Ken at today’s proceedings, while Muhyiddin was represented by Chetan Jethwani and Ivy Shu.
Anwar had filed the suit on December 20 last year over Muhyiddin’s alleged slanderous statements while stumping for a Perikatan Nasional candidate in the 15th general election, Datuk Azman Nasrudin, in Taman Selasih, Kulim, Kedah on December 5.
Anwar is seeking general, aggravated, exemplary, and compensatory damages from Muhyiddin, in addition to an injunctive order to prevent him from further publishing or distributing similar defamatory statements.
Muhyiddin in his statement of defence claimed that his speech was not slanderous but a fair comment as it was part of political campaigning for Azman. – Bernama, May 22, 2023
