PETALING JAYA: A police investigation into a ceramah in Selayang has led Datuk Seri Rafizi Ramli to cancel his daytime campaign events in Melaka on Tuesday (Nov 3).
Rafizi said he had received a notice from Bukit Aman to present himself at 10am on Tuesday (Nov 3) to be investigated under Section 500 of the Penal Code for criminal defamation and Section 505 for statements conducing to public mischief.
He said he would return to Kuala Lumpur to give his statement.
"I respect that the investigating officers are carrying out their duties as instructed," he said in a statement Monday (Nov 2).
Rafizi, a former economy minister, quit PKR and vacated his Pandan parliamentary seat in May to take over Parti Bersama Malaysia, which has named 16 candidates for the Melaka polls on Nov 14.
The probe followed a police report lodged on Oct 22 over his ceramah on Oct 20, he said.
According to Rafizi, the notice said the report concerned his remarks on several allegations, including a RM9.5mil payment and issues linked to the corporate mafia.
The corporate mafia allegations, involving businessmen and enforcement officers, surfaced in a Bloomberg report in February.
On Oct 20, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim told the Dewan Rakyat that a special task force led by the Attorney General would look into the matter, with its findings to be made public within three months of the probe's completion.
Rafizi said the ceramah also touched on the decision to charge Comm Datuk Seri Mohd Shuhaily Mohd Zain.
Mohd Shuhaily, the Malaysian Border Control and Protection Agency director-general, was charged at a Sepang Magistrate's Court on Oct 21 with voluntarily causing hurt to two policemen at KLIA Terminal 1 on Sept 28. He pleaded not guilty.
Rafizi said he had previously been investigated under the same sections over his remarks on 1MDB and Tabung Haji.
He was acquitted in 2019 of criminally defaming Tabung Haji after the prosecution dropped the case.
Over 1MDB, he was convicted under the Official Secrets Act 1972 for revealing part of the then-classified audit report, and the Court of Appeal replaced his 18-month jail term with a two-year good behaviour bond in 2018.
