Sarawak Report editor, Clare Rewcastle-Brown and two other defendants facing a defamation suit by the Sultanah of Terengganu have claimed they did not suggest that Sultanah Nazirah had committed graft or was associated to fugitive businessman Jho Low of the 1MDB scandal.

In their statement of defence, they also claimed that there was no imputation that the sultanah was influencing the Terengganu state administration.