The Kuala Lumpur High Court dismissed former attorney-general Mohamed Apandi Ali’s defamation suit against DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang yesterday over the 2019 article “Dangerous fallacy to think Malaysia’s on the road to integrity”, which was published on his blog.

Judge Azimah Omar ruled that Lim was justified in his statement urging Apandi to answer why he had absolved former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak of the 1MDB affair in 2016.

The court also ordered Apandi to pay RM80,000 in legal costs to Lim.