KUALA LUMPUR: The Armed Forces Fund Board (LTAT) has withdrawn its suit against PKR vice-president Mohd Rafizi Ramli for allegedly implying it has no money to pay gratuity to ex-servicemen.



Rafizi's lawyer Saiful Izham Ramli told reporters that LTAT withdrew the suit with the agreement of both parties.



Saiful Izham said the withdrawal was recorded before High Court judge Justice Ahmad Zaidi Ibrahim on Thursday.



“The court later struck out the suit with no costs and no liberty to file afresh,” he said.



In the statement of claim filed on May 6, 2016, the board named Rafizi as the sole defendant.



It said Rafizi had on March 21 posted defamatory statements about it in his blog and on Facebook.



The plaintiff said the defendant caused the publication of another defamatory statement in the website of a news portal on March 24.



The board claimed that he repeated similar accusation against LTAT in a Facebook post on March 28.



The board said it sent a notice of demand to him on April 5 asking for a retraction of the statements, an apology and an undertaking not to repeat any defamatory words but he failed to do so.



In the claim, LTAT had sought general damages, exemplary damages and an injunction to restrain Rafizi or his agents from publishing libellous statements against the board.

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