Malaysiakini: Najib defamed? So, what's new?

The startling accusation by a Perak PKR leader that he was offered RM50 million to engineer defections has forced a former deputy minister to come out and clear the air.

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Zainal Abidin Zin, the former deputy defence minister, today confirmed that he took PKR leader Fauzi Muda to meet Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak at his official residence in Putrajaya.

This took place three days after the March 8 general election, which saw Perak falling into the hands of the opposition by a slim majority of three seats.

However, the Umno veteran denied that any monetary offers were made during the close-to-midnight meeting involving about a dozen individuals.

"I believe that at no point of time during the meeting was any money offered to Fauzi. The meeting took place rather openly," he told a press conference in Kuala Lumpur.

He added that none of the parties at the meeting had mentioned anything to him about financial offers having been made.

The former deputy minister also claimed that he did not know that Fauzi was an opposition politician at that time.

Zainal was responding to the explosive revelation by Fauzi yesterday that he was offered RM50 million on that night as a reward if he could get two Pakatan Rakyat representatives in the state to cross over to Barisan Nasional.

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In a related development, two police reports were lodged today against Fauzi and another Pakatan Rakyat state leader for alleged slander.

In the first, Ipoh Barat Umno Youth chief Syamsul Baharin Putra Ahmad Shibi lodged a report at the Sungai Senam police station in Ipoh claiming that Fauzi had defamed Najib with his statutory declaration.

(Source: Malaysiakini)

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I thought Mr. Denial & Perception has already long been defamed since Altantuya murder trial? Even Mazlan Harun, an Umno veteran, lodged a report with ACA last year against PM & DPM. So, what is new about this damning statutory declaration?