PETALING JAYA: Authorities here have denied receiving any information that activist and Swedish asylum seeker Ali Abd Jalil has been "picked up by Interpol" and was en route back to Malaysia, as he claimed on social media on Friday.
A representative from Wisma Putra said the Foreign Ministry was still trying to verify Ali's claim with its consulate in Stockholm, saying officials there were not notified by Swedish authorities of the 29-year-old's supposed arrest.
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