Police return laptop seized from Malaysiakini

Summary

• Police have returned the laptop seized in connection with an investigation against Khairy Jamaluddin.

• This followed a report lodged by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Azalina Othman Said’s political aide.

Police have returned the laptop seized from Malaysiakini in connection with an investigation into former Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin.

Bukit Aman’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID)’s Special Investigation Unit had seized the computer on Jan 27.

The following day, Malaysiakini had to go to the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) headquarters in Putrajaya to enable its officers to extract details on the portal’s content management system (CMS).

Police are investigating Khairy under Section 500 of the Penal Code for defamation and Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998.

This followed a police report lodged by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Azalina Othman Said’s political secretary Suraya Yaacob.

Royal addendum comment

The report was lodged over a Malaysiakini article which quoted Khairy’s comments in his podcast “Keluar Sekejap”.

Commenting on the royal addendum saga related to former premier Najib Abdul Razak, Khairy had said that it led to a trust crisis within Umno.

The former minister also implied that Azalina was complicit in concealing the addendum.

In her police report, Suraya claimed the news was false and tarnished Azalina’s reputation.

Police have also recorded Khairy’s statement.

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