Former MAS chairman sues news portal for RM200mil

(Bernama) - Former executive chairman of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Tan Sri Tajudin Ramli has filed a RM200mil suit against a news portal over the publication of a article on the airline suffering losses of RM8bil.



He named The Malaysian Insider Sdn Bhd, its chief executive officer Jahabar Sadiq and journalist Shazwan Mustafa Kamal as defendants.



Tajudin, who was the MAS executive chairman between 1994 and 2001, filed the suit last Aug 18 at the Civil High Court registry here through the legal firm of Lim Kian Leong & Co.



The case has been set for case management before judge Harmindar Singh Dhaliwal on Sept 19.



In the statement of claims, Tajudin stated that the portal had published defamatory words in an article, with the title "MACC clear A-G of graft allegations", on May 31, 2011.



He claimed that the article was published after the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) revealed the outcome of its graft probe against Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail.



Tajudin claimed that the article was published with the intention of reflecting that he was implicated in the investigation against the Attorney-General.



Tajudin claimed that the portal also repeated the defamatory words in other articles, despite a letter sent to it to not do so.



He said The Malaysian Insider, when responding to his letter, stated that the words in the article were not defamatory and that they had obtained the information from multiple sources.



Besides general damages of RM200mil, Tajudin is also seeking aggravated damages and interests

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