{"id":15880,"date":"2022-12-22T21:53:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T13:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=15880"},"modified":"2022-12-22T21:53:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T13:53:34","slug":"anwar-sues-ahmad-amzad-over-defamatory-statements-on-rm1-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=15880","title":{"rendered":"Anwar sues Ahmad Amzad over defamatory statements on RM1 salary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 22<\/strong> &#8212;\u00a0Anwar Ibrahim filed a lawsuit against Kuala Terengganu MP\u00a0Datuk Ahmad Amzad Hashim for allegedly issuing defamatory statements that the Prime Minister lied about receiving a salary of RM1 when he was Selangor&#8217;s economic adviser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anwar, 75, as the plaintiff filed the suit through S.N. Nair &amp; Partners in the Kuala Terengganu High Court by naming Ahmad Amzad as the sole defendant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lawyer Datuk SN Nair, who represented Anwar when contacted by Bernama said the suit was filed at 3.59 pm this afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-22-at-9.52.36-PM-1024x566.png\" alt=\"ahmad amzad\" class=\"wp-image-15881\" width=\"597\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-22-at-9.52.36-PM-1024x566.png 1024w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-22-at-9.52.36-PM-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-22-at-9.52.36-PM-768x425.png 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-22-at-9.52.36-PM-181x100.png 181w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-22-at-9.52.36-PM-350x194.png 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-22-at-9.52.36-PM-800x442.png 800w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-22-at-9.52.36-PM.png 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the statement of claim, the Pakatan Harapan (PH) chairman claimed that on Dec 7, the defendant had made several statements to a group of customers while dining at a restaurant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PKR president claimed that the statement was republished on TikTok under the name @nelly3868 on the same day (Dec 7) and received more than 4,980 views, 62 comments, 116 &#8216;like&#8217; buttons, 18 &#8216;favourite&#8217; buttons and 50 shares. and is accessible up to now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/\">NMT<\/a> as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=2150385\">Bernama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 22 &#8212;\u00a0Anwar Ibrahim filed a lawsuit against Kuala Terengganu MP\u00a0Datuk Ahmad Amzad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-courts"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-22-at-9.52.36-PM.png",1168,646,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-22-at-9.52.36-PM-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-22-at-9.52.36-PM-300x166.png",300,166,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-22-at-9.52.36-PM-768x425.png",640,354,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-22-at-9.52.36-PM-1024x566.png",640,354,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-22-at-9.52.36-PM.png",1168,646,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-22-at-9.52.36-PM.png",1168,646,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-22-at-9.52.36-PM.png",1168,646,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-22-at-9.52.36-PM.png",1024,566,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-22-at-9.52.36-PM.png",720,398,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=10893\" rel=\"category\">Courts<\/a>","tag_info":"Courts","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15882,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15880\/revisions\/15882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}