The parties in the RM200-million suit brought by former Malaysia Airlines executive chairman Tajudin Ramli against The Malaysian Insider news portal are seeking to settle the case out of

court, counsel for The Malaysian Insider said today.  

Lawyer George Miranda said this after he, Tajudin’s counsel Lim Kian Leong and the news portal’s executive and journalist had met Judge Harminder Singh Dhaliwal in chambers.    

The case had been set for case management today. After the meeting, the judge set Sept 28 for case management.    

On Aug 18, Tajudin filed the suit over the news portal’s publication of an article on the airline company.

He named The Malaysian Insider Sdn Bhd, its chief executive officer Jahabar Sadiq and journalist Shazwan Mustafa Kamal as defendants.

    

Tajudin, who helmed the airline from 1994 to 2001, had stated that the portal had published defamatory words in the article on May 31, 2011.

He also claimed that the portal repeated the defamatory words in other articles, despite a letter sent to it to not do so.

He said the Malaysian Insider , when responding to his letter, stated that the words in the article were not defamatory and that they had obtained the information from multiple sources.

Besides general damages of RM200 million, Tajudin is also seeking aggravated damages and interests.

- Bernama