KOTA BARU: Police will leave it to the attorney-general to handle the RM100 million suit filed by a former Eastern Sabah Security Command (Esscom) officer against several former and current senior officers for allegedly falsely charging him with murder.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Razarudin Husain said police would cooperate with the A-G to come up with an affidavit.
"I will leave it to the A-G to answer on this matter," he told reporters after witnessing the handing over of duties for the state police chief at the Kelantan police headquarters.
Razarudin was not named in the suit but the former officers named included former IGP Tan Sri Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani.
The suit was filed by former Esscom intelligence chief Datuk Mat Zaki Zain against Acryl Sani and 10 others, including the former Selangor police chief and the current Kuala Lumpur and Selangor police chiefs.
Mat Zaki is seeking RM100 million in damages, claiming he and three others were falsely charged with the murder of an e-hailing driver in January last year.
They were subsequently acquitted.
Mat Zaki said their reputation and good name were damaged by their criminal case as it had gone viral on the mainstream, alternative and social media, giving rise to the assumption that they were guilty of the crime.
He claimed the charges were false and that the plaintiffs were still recovering from the trauma caused by the defendants' wrongful actions and accusations.
Mat Zaki, 59, and eight others were acquitted by the Tawau High Court in January of a charge of murdering Nurman Bakaratu, 61, after Nurman's former wife, Nurimah Juli, 35, confessed to the murder during her testimony.