Terengganu sultanah to sue Sarawak Report

(Sun Daily) – The Sultanah of Terengganu will file her defamation suit against Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown at the Kuala Lumpur High Court next week.

Lawyers representing Sultanah Nur Zahirah (pix) had rejected offers of settlement, The Malaysian Insight reported today.

The legal team had intended to file the suit at the Kuala Terengganu High Court but decided on Kuala Lumpur instead.

“If we file it in Terengganu, people will start talking, saying this and that,” the sultanah’s lead counsel, Mohd Haaziq Pillay Abdullah was quoted by the news portal as saying. “Additionally, the defendants are in KL.”

Sultanah Nur Zahirah is suing Rewcastle-Brown for RM100 million in damages for claiming that the royal had conspired with businessman Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, in the multi-billion-dollar 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal.

The claim was allegedly made in Rewcastle-Brown’s book “The Sarawak Report: The Inside Story of 1MDB Exposé“, which was released in September.

The suit will also name publisher Gerakbudaya, as well as printers Vinlin Press, as defendants.