Capital A files suit against news portal over Danajamin loan


KUALA LUMPUR: AirAsia Group Berhad - now known as Capital A Berhad (Capital A) - has filed a defamation suit against the author and chief executive officer of a news portal over the publication of an article with regard to the company's half-a-billion ringgit loan from the government.

Capital A as the plaintiff filed the suit in the High Court here, through Messrs Steven Thiru & Sudhar Partnership on March 21, naming the author of the malaysianow.com portal, Azzman Abdul Jamal, the portal's chief executive officer and editor Muhammad Abd Ar-Rahman Koya and MNow Media Sdn Bhd, as the first to third defendants.

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