Anwar’s aide sues former PKR staffer over sexual misconduct claim
BY JUSTIN ONG
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 27 — Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s political secretary, Farhash Wafa Salvador Rizal Mubarak, has sued former staffer Muhammad Yusoff Rawther for defamation over the latter’s sexual misconduct allegation against the PKR president.news portal, Farhash filed the lawsuit with the High Court here last Friday.
The lawsuit asserted that Yusoff’s legal representatives rejected a letter of demand dated December 30 demanding for a retraction and apology. Anwar denied this and pointed out that he had been campaigning for the Port Dickson by-election at the time of the alleged incident.
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