KUALA LUMPUR: Rafizi Ramli urged Datuk Seri Abdul Rahman Dahlan to sue him if he was not satisfied with his actions following his mistaken claim that the Expo Negaraku contract was awarded to the latter’s “brother” Raslan Dahlan.

“He can sue me. That is not a problem. Let’s meet in court because when we are in court, I can ask him questions,” Rafizi told a press conference here on Tuesday (Dec 12).

Rafizi had earlier claimed that PICO Integrated Exhibit Sdn Bhd's chief executive officer Raslan Dahlan was Abdul Rahman’s brother.

After Abdul Rahman refuted this, Rafizi admitted he had made a mistake.

On Tuesday, Rafizi said he took down the video of the press conference in which he had first made the claim out of respect to Raslan Dahlan, as he is an event manager.

“He is a professional event manager and the information given by a source in the EPU (Economic Planning Unit) was not accurate and that’s fair enough.

“So we have to take it down out of respect for him,” said Rafizi, adding that he is prepared to apologise to PICO and Raslan Dahlan.

Rafizi however refused to apologise to Rahman Dahlan for his mistake.

Abdul Rahman said he would be speaking with his lawyer to discuss the legal action to be taken against Rafizi.

The Pandan MP said he was happy if Abdul Rahman wanted to sue him because he would be able to subpoena witnesses through the legal system.

Rafizi said his mistake did not remove the fact that Abdul Rahman has to answer questions about how much money was used to hold the Expo and whether an open tender was conducted to pick the organiser for the event.

He said that he had raised questions related to the awarding of tenders in Parliament before, but was given a written reply that information on the companies and the contract values could be found on a government portal.

Rafizi then said that checks found that PICO Integrated had only acquired one contract back in 2010 when it was the organiser of the Aquafair Malaysia 2010 that was worth RM1.48mil.