{"id":26627,"date":"2022-01-11T15:40:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T07:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=26627"},"modified":"2022-01-11T17:31:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T09:31:57","slug":"dap-kl-offers-free-legal-aid-to-whistleblower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/dap-kl-offers-free-legal-aid-to-whistleblower\/","title":{"rendered":"DAP KL offers free legal aid to whistleblower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lalita-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lalita-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lalita-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lalita-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lalita-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lalita-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lalita-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lalita-960x960.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lalita.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was reported that MACC chief commissioner Azam Baki has initiated legal proceedings for defamation against the whistleblower, Lalitha Kunaratnam, who first published Azam having owned shares in two listed companies. Azam is demanding RM10 million and a public apology from Lalitha.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DAP Kuala Lumpur\u2019s legal team offers its service to Lalitha on a pro bono basis to defend her case in the court of law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Azam should not have issued the letter of demand in the first place. He should have asked for full investigation into the alleged conflict of interest accusation against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Lim&nbsp;Lip&nbsp;Eng<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Member of Parliament for Kepong<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was reported that MACC chief commissioner Azam Baki has initiated legal proceedings for defamation against the whistleblower, Lalitha Kunaratnam, who first published Azam having owned shares in two listed companies. Azam is demanding RM10 million and a public apology from Lalitha.&nbsp; DAP Kuala Lumpur\u2019s legal team offers its service to Lalitha on a pro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[833,120,2614,1219,197],"class_list":["post-26627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-highlights","tag-azam-baki","tag-dap","tag-lalitha-kunaratnam","tag-lim-lip-eng","tag-macc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26641,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26627\/revisions\/26641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}