Kamal Hisham Jaafar had sued Dato' Sri Ayob Khan in 2021 after the latter told a press conference that police had arrested a lawyer for allegedly cheating an advertising company out of RM185,062.

Dato' Sri Ayob Khan, who was then the Police Chief of Johor, claimed the said lawyer had ties with the Johor royal family and was previously convicted for money laundering and criminal breach of trust (CBT).

Kamal alleged that Dato' Sri Ayob Khan wanted to injure his reputation and had “twisted” the contents of Kamal’s criminal cases during the press conference.

However, High Court judge Tee Geok Hock dismissed Kamal’s suit today because Dato' Sri Ayob Khan had not mentioned Kamal’s name throughout the press conference, which was streamed live on Facebook.

Tee also ordered Kamal to pay RM20,000 in costs.

“The defendant (Dato' Sri Ayob Khan) did not say anything which could lead a listener to make any reasonable inference that the ‘lawyer suspect’ was the same lawyer who attracted much publicity in the newspapers a few years before the date of the press conference,” he added.

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Source: Free Malaysia Today