A Malaysian courtroom has ordered opposition chief and former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin to pay greater than $300,000 to a different politician in a defamation case, state media mentioned on Friday, including to the previous prime minister’s authorized woes.
Muhyiddin, who was prime minister for 17 months between 2020 and 2021, can be charged with sedition for allegedly insulting a former king and is accused of corruption and cash laundering in separate circumstances.
The Kuala Lumpur Excessive Court docket on Friday ordered Muhyiddin to pay 1.35 million ringgit ($308,078) in damages for defamatory feedback towards former Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng in a sequence of Fb posts in March 2023. , reported the Bernama information company.
The courtroom additionally ordered Muhyiddin to retract the statements and issued an injunction stopping him from repeating the claims.
Muhyiddin’s lawyer, Chetan Jethwani, was not instantly out there for remark.
Bernama quoted Jethwani as saying that Muhyiddin would attraction.
Lim mentioned on Friday he was grateful for the ruling because the allegations towards him have been false and unfounded, native media reported.
Muhyiddin had mentioned that when Lim was minister from 2018 to 2020 he revoked a tax exemption for a charitable group. Lim sued Muhyiddin over what he mentioned amounted to an accusation that he had abused his place.
