Dr Mahathir said Tawfik was "entitled to say what he likes."
"Obviously he (Tawfik) came to the meeting with bad intentions. In front of me he even appeared to be supportive but behind me, he says something else," Dr Mahathir said at a symposium on corruption on Wednesday.
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