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The framing is definitely different, even for familiar cases. So, I’m treading lightly.
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Farhash Wafa Salvador Rizal Mubarak is back to suing the media, this time over an article that has yet to be published.
The former aide of PM Anwar Ibrahim-turned-corporate-wunderkind has secured an interim injunction against Bloomberg.
Farhash claims that a profile the newswire was preparing carried “defamatory imputations” that would hurt his reputation as well as public confidence in government institutions.
The story goes like this: