No order from PM to sue WSJ yet, lawyer confirms
(Malay Mail Online) – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has yet to instruct his legal team to file a lawsuit against Wall Street Journal (WSJ) over two of its articles last month on the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) controversy, his lawyer has confirmed.
As such, Wan Azmir Wan Majid, who is from the law firm representing Najib, confirmed with Malay Mail Online that the prime minister’s lawyers have not made any move against the US-based publication’s publisher Dow Jones & Co.
“It’s still status quo. We have not gotten instructions,” he told Malay Mail Online when contacted.
In an article on July 2, WSJ, citing documents from Malaysian investigators scrutinising 1MDB’s financials, said a money trail showed that US$700 million (RM2.6 billion) had been channelled into what appeared to be the prime minister’s accounts.
The report said, however, that the source of the funds was unknown although it noted that it was the first time that Najib had been linked to the probe on the troubled state investor.
