Azmin's speech was dark and nasty, defamed me and my brother, says witness

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A witness in the defamation suit filed by egg importing company J&E Advance Tech Sdn Bhd against Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali told the Kuala Lumpur  High Court on Monday (May 13) that the statements made by the former International Trade and Industry Minister in a political talk about him was dark and nasty and defamed him and his brother.  Businessman Deepak Jaikishan said the statements by Mohamed Azmin in his political talk on March 11 last year about him being friends with Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, who is the wife of former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and mentioning the word "telur" (egg) repeatedly was personally defamatory to him.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 A witness in the defamation suit filed by egg importing company J&E Advanced Tech Sendirian

00:08 Berhad against Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali told the Kuala Lumpur High Court on Monday

00:15 the statements made by the former international trade and industry minister in a political

00:20 talk about him was dark and nasty and defamed him and his brother.

00:25 Fifty-two-year-old businessman Deepak Jaikishan said the statements by Mohamed Azmin in his

00:30 political talk on March 11 last year about him being friends with Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor,

00:37 who is the wife of former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, and mentioning the word

00:42 "egg" repeatedly was personally defamatory to him, Deepak said when testifying as a subpoenaed

00:49 witness in the suit before Judicial Commissioner Leong Wai Hong.

00:54 He also said that Mohamed Azmin's suggestion that J&E Advanced Tech had secured the egg

00:59 importing permit because of his friendship with Rosmah was the nasty part of the speech.

01:05 Earlier, Deepak's younger brother Rajesh Jaikishan, who is J&E Advanced Tech General Manager,

01:11 testified that the claims by Mohamed Azmin in his speech were not true as there was no

01:16 direct negotiation with the government in obtaining the license for egg importing.

01:22 The trial will resume on Friday, and Mohamed Azmin is expected to take the stand.

01:28 J&E Advanced Tech Sandirian Berhad filed the lawsuit against Mohamed Azmin on April 12

01:35 last year for alleging that the company obtained a contract through direct negotiation with

01:40 the government to import eggs from India.

01:42 For more information visit www.fema.gov

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