KUALA LUMPUR: Anyone has the right to file a lawsuit, says Comm Datuk Rusdi Mohd Isa.
The Kuala Lumpur police chief was responding to legal action filed by a former Eastern Sabah Security Command (Esscom) officer, naming him as one of the defendants.
"Everyone has the right to file a lawsuit. I am among those being sued thus I can't comment further. We will wait as I have not received the summons yet," he told reporters at the Kuala Lumpur police headquarters on Wednesday (Aug 21).
It was reported that former Esscom chief of staff (Intelligence) Datuk Mat Zaki Md Zain and three others have filed a RM100mil defamation suit against the police and 10 others for wrongful prosecution and arrest in the case involving the murder of an ehailing driver.
The suit, which also named former Esscom officers and members Fabian Anak Rungan, Dennis Anak Enit, and Mohd Azlan Sakaran as the plaintiffs, was filed through Messrs Lincon & Company at the High Court here on Aug 15.
They named former Bukit Aman CID director Datuk Seri Abdul Jalil Hassan, Kuala Lumpur police chief Comm Rusdi, Selangor police chief Comm Datuk Hussein Omar Khan, and former Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Idris Abdullah as the first to fourth defendants.
Other defendants named in the suit are Tawau district police chief ACP Jasmin Hussin, ACP Dr Mohd Hakim Hashim, DSP Yusman Shahri Marinsah, former Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani, the Attorney General’s Chamber, and the government.
Mat Zaki, in a statement, claimed that despite being acquitted, he and the three other plaintiffs continued to be pressured, transferred out of Esscom, and then transferred out of Sabah without clear justification.
