Liew wins defamation suit


KOTA KINABALU: Former Sabah deputy chief minister Datuk Christina Liew (pic) has won a defamation suit against a planter who uttered and wrote malicious statements in a viral video about her a few days prior to GE14 in 2018.

Liew was awarded RM100,000 in damages and RM50,000 in costs.

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