The Kuala Lumpur High Court has awarded Farhash Wafa Salvador Rizal Mubarak RM550,000 in civil damages in his defamation suit against Bersatu leader Badrul Hisham Shaharin, better known as Chegubard, and YouTuber Nurpais Ismail.

Judicial commissioner Arziah Apandi found that the defendants had uttered defamatory statements against the businessperson in a podcast published on Nurpais’ YouTube channel in May last year...