KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Jamal Md Yunos has auctioned off a slipper and a towel for RM66,000, which will be used to pay Teresa Kok.
The items were used by Jamal during in an infamous protest in 2016 when Selangor was experiencing water shortages. He was clad only in towels.
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The Sungai Besar Umno division chief said he would use the sum to pay off an outstanding judgment sum of RM66,061.85 to the Seputeh MP following a defamation suit brought by Kok against him.
"There was supposed to be a court auction today for Kok's claim of RM66,000 but yesterday my son, Mohamad Amin Daniel, successfully obtained a stay order."
Jamal said two bidders were interested in the items for RM33,000 each: one from Negri Sembilan who bought the towel and the other from Sabah who bought the single slipper.
He also said the person who won the auction for the slipper said he would frame it slipper and send it to Kok's office.
Jamal said he expects to receive the funds soon and will then send it to Kok.
He also suggested that the Seputeh MP use the money to kickstart an entrepreneurship as a pig farmer in her backyard, pointing out that this would only be possible if her house was not in Selangor.
On Jan 28, 14 items were seized from Jamal's home in Ampang to recover the outstanding judgment sum.
Kok's lawyer, Datuk Sankara Nair, said that the seized items would be auctioned off.
Kok filed the suit on April 6, 2017, accusing Jamal of making defamatory statements about her concerning the Yayasan Warisan Anak Selangor (Yawas) funds during a press conference on March 8, 2017.
In her statement of claim, she said that the defamatory statements were circulated through both print and electronic media, including on Jamal's Facebook page.
She contended that the defamatory statements implied she had misappropriated state government funds for personal gain and portrayed her as unethical.
On July 26, 2022, Kok won her case and was awarded RM300,000 by High Court Judicial Commissioner Mohd Arief Emran Arifin. Jamal was also ordered to pay RM50,000 in costs.
On March 27, 2024, the Court of Appeal dismissed Jamal's appeal. He was also ordered to pay RM50,000 in legal costs.
On March 29, 2023, a different panel of the Court of Appeal granted Jamal's request to defer the payment of RM300,000 in damages, but ordered him to deposit the amount into the account of the law firm representing Kok pending disposal of his appeal in the Federal Court.
On July 30, 2024, the Federal Court dismissed Jamal's application for leave to appeal against the lower court's decision as it did not meet the threshold requirement for leave under Section 96 of the Courts of Judicature Act 1964.
Jamal had settled the RM300,000 payment.
