PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli is seeking donations to pay for damages and costs related to the National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) defamation suit after he was threatened with a bankruptcy proceeding.

"A few weeks ago, my lawyer received a demand letter asking for the RM300,000 to be paid. Otherwise, they threatened to commence a bankruptcy proceeding against me.

"My appeal against the verdict will only be heard in October 2017 and thus, unfortunately, I have to comply," he said in a Facebook posting yesterday.

The suit was filed after Rafizi claimed that NFC chairperson Mohd Salleh Ismail had bought eight properties at KL Eco-City with public funds allocated to the company.

A high court ruling last year deemed this defamatory and ordered Rafizi to pay RM150,000 to Salleh and RM50,000 to NFC. They were also awarded costs of RM100,000.

"I hate to do a public appeal because I was not raised to go around with a begging bowl," Rafizi said...