PKR lawyers to sue Rahimi for criminal defamation

ARCHIVES 2010

By admin-s On Oct 8, 2010

In his own statement given to the police at [Bukit Aman] on July 23, 2008 in the afternoon, he has confirmed that he knew that Saiful (Bukhari Azlan) had met Najib and Rosmah.

Malaysia Chronicle

PKR lawyers – accused of having forced Rahimi Osman the former aide of Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim to sign two statutory declarations – will issue letters of demand to him to retract his statement or face a criminal defamation suit.

According to one of the lawyers, Latheefa Koya, a letter of demand will also be sent to one of media which had “twisted the facts” when reporting a press conference called by Rahimi on Wednesday.

“We will send the letters of demand within the next 24 hours. After that he will have another 24 hours to retract his statement and apologise,” Malaysiakini reported Latheefa as saying during a press conference at the PKR headquarters.

Rahimi gave police the info before even telling PKR

Rahimi

The 25-year old Rahimi had lodged a police report on Wednesday, claiming that he was made to sign under duress two statutory declarations on June 28, 2008 that implicated Prime Minister Najib Razak and his wife in the ongoing sodomy trial against Anwar.

Rahimi named Latheefa – who is also PKR information chief – and another lawyer Saiful Izham Ramli – who is the Kedah PKR Youth chief – as the ones who had coerced him into signing the statutory declarations.

However, both Latheefa and Saiful denied the allegations. Latheefa also said that Rahimi had “voluntarily” co-operated with Anwar’s defence team when signing the declarations at the Quality Hotel in Klang two years ago.

“Rahimi’s allegations that the statutory declarations were amended to include the names of Datuk Seri Najib Razak and Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor without his consent is completely untrue and without any credibility at all,” Malaysian Insider reported Latheefa as saying.

“This is because in his own statement given to the police at [Bukit Aman] on July 23, 2008 in the afternoon, he has confirmed that he knew that Saiful (Bukhari Azlan) had met Najib and Rosmah.”

As such, Latheefa said Rahimi had revealed the information that was adopted into the statutory declarations only after making it available to the police some five days earlier.