“For the record, I neither requested RM100,000 nor negotiated the amount to settle for RM20,000,” he wrote in the article.
: A journalist from a news portal who was detained at the end of last month on suspicion of involvement in a corruption case had today published an article to clear the air, standing firm that he had never solicited a bribe.
“Since writing the first article on this new syndicate on Feb 19, I never contacted these agents to ask for a bribe. It was these agents who repeatedly offered to bribe me,” he explained. He said that after the meeting, he immediately went to the state immigration director’s office to discuss the case.
“When we met, the agent asked me to delete the articles about him,” he said, adding that he refused and pretended to be interested in “working together” with him and tried to coax him to give something that could be used as evidence. “Pending the independent panel’s findings, Malaysiakini has suspended the journalist with full benefits,” said the news portal, noting that the newsman has been an outstanding journalist, producing numerous exclusives that have made headlines.
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