Lim Kit Siang was justified in his statement urging then attorney-general Mohamed Apandi Ali to answer why he had absolved Najib Abdul Razak of the 1MDB affair in 2016, the Kuala Lumpur High Court ruled.

Judge Azimah Omar this afternoon dismissed Apandi’s defamation suit against the DAP veteran over the 2019 article “Dangerous fallacy to think Malaysia’s on the road to integrity”, which was published on his blog.