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Najib's son-in-law demands proof he got contract from PM
Published:  Nov 27, 2015 6:14 PM
Updated: 10:53 AM
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Daniyar Kesikbayev, the son-in-law of Najib Abdul Razak, has demanded proof over a claim that he received a renovation contract from the prime minister.

Daniyar issued the demand in a statement through his lawyers after they lodged a police report against DAP MP Mohd Ariff Sabri Abdul Aziz who first made the allegation.

"Our client challenged Mohd Ariff Sabri to show proof over his allegation that the deal was inked by the prime minister.

"He (Ariff) is also asked to to reveal where he obtained such information.

"Ariff had not only defamed my client but he had also defamed the Malaysian prime minister in his blog posting," said lawyer Noorhajran Mohd Noor.

Ariff's article titled 'Faulty reward system and changeable governments" dated Nov 24 had claimed that a building in New York, which houses Malaysia's permanent representative to the United Nations, would be undergoing major renovation works.

For now, Daniyar is pursuing criminal defamation against Ariff through the police report which was lodged at Dang Wangi district police headquarters this afternoon.

Noorhajran said the blog posting was intended to spoil and lower the reputation of Daniyar as Najib's son-in-law and was also defamatory of Najib.

Furthermore, Noorhajran said her client also took issue that the article which was first posted on Ariff's blog titled Sakmongol AK47 was reproduced on Malaysia Chronicles with a different title which linked him to controversial billionaire Jho Low.

The new title read: "Son-in-law daniyar to be new Jho Low: Disquiet over contract to renovate gov't office in New York".

"As a result of his (Ariff's) writing, false claim and libel made on the blog Sakmongol AK47, thus causing to be published in the portal which was influenced by his false writing to say that my client is the new 'Jho Low' to the prime minister.

"Ariff's false statement and libel had clearly caused third parties to have skewed view against my client and damaged his reputation in less than 24 hours," she said.

Noorhajran read out from a statement and declined to take questions from reporters.

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