00:01DAP's Teresa Kok has warned that she will initiate contempt proceedings against Sungai Besar UMNO Chief Jamal Yunus
00:08if he continues making defamatory statements that breach a high court injunction.
00:14The Sepute MP said she would have no choice but to instruct her lawyers to take the necessary legal action
00:20should such remarks persist.
00:22In a Facebook post, she said it was not a step she would take lightly, but it could become unavoidable
00:29if such irresponsible conduct persisted.
00:32In 2022, the high court ordered Jamal to pay Kok more than RM300,000 in damages along with costs.
00:39However, the RM66,000, RM61.65, comprising costs and interest, remained unpaid which Kok subsequently filed a writ of seizure
00:49to recover the balance.
00:51Yesterday, Jamal auctioned a slipper and a towel he had worn during a 2016 protest to raise funds to settle
00:58the balance.
00:59Kok said she had exercised, restrained and avoided responding to provocations,
01:05but described Jamal's recent remarks as crude and morally irresponsible and an attempt to mock a court-ordered payment.
01:13Panyu Jo, FMT
