Rosli Dahlan, the company’s lead counsel, is also demanding that the Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4 Center) remove the posts on its Twitter and Facebook.

He also wants C4 Center to issue an “unequivocal public apology”.

According to a letter of demand sighted by FMT, the allegations posted on C4 Center’s social media had implied that Rosli was a corrupt person and had siphoned money into PPBM from Goldman Sachs’ US$2.9 billion settlement with the government.

According to the letter of demand, the social media posts by C4 Center also implied that Rosli was a crony of PPBM and Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.

Rosli’s lawyers said these allegations were “false, patently untrue” and “completely baseless,” among other things.

“They are categorically denied.

“These defamatory statements have far-reaching, irreversible and irreparable effects which cast aspersions on our client,” the letter read, adding that this included injuring Rosli’s reputation and public confidence in him.

Rosli’s lawyers went on to say that despite a denial by PPBM’s secretary-general Hamzah Zainudin and the party’s information chief, Wan Saiful Wan Jan, the non-governmental organisation had “deliberately published” the defamatory statements.

C4 Center it said had 48 hours to comply with its demands, failing which Rosli would proceed with legal action, including seeking aggravated damages.