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
