Anwar sued Anifah for RM100m

KUALA LUMPUR— Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is filing a libel suit against Foreign Minister Datuk Anifah Aman today.

Anwar’s lawyer Sankara Nair told The Malaysian Insider that the suit will be filed at 2pm at the Kuala Lumpur High Court.

Anifah has refused to apologise. – Bernama pic

On May 16, Anifah who is also MP for Kimanis, told a group of foreign reporters in the United States that Anwar had offered him the deputy prime minister's position if he agreed to cross over to Pakatan Rakyat (PR) after the March 8 general election last year. He was speaking at a joint press conference at the State Department in Washington with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

He also alleged Anwar was “trying to buy other legislative members”.

When Anwar strongly denied the accusations and threatened legal action unless Anifah issued an apology, the latter refused.

"Oh yes, I have no problem with that, as the foreign minister I have better things to do, Anwar is the least of my concern."

On May 18, Sankara said that the allegations made by Anifah were “baseless, untrue, defamatory and made with malicious intent to tarnish Anwar’s reputation”.

The lawyer then sent Anifah a letter of demand for an immediate apology, pending which RM100 million would be sought “for the injury caused to our client’s reputation”. (TMI)