Pua accused Badrul, better known as Chegubard, of slandering him and trying to incite members of the public, especially the Muslim community, against Pakatan Harapan (PH), DAP and himself.

“I would like to emphasise that I no longer own a single share in the company, Cyber Village Sdn Bhd, for the past 15 years. I used to lead the company up until 2006.

“It is public information that I sold all my shares in Cyber Village before I entered politics in 2007. I no longer have any links to the company,” he said in a statement.

Pua also said Tabung Haji was not a federal statutory body under the finance ministry, insisting that the ministry was not involved in the pilgrim fund’s dealings when PH was in power.

An exception was when an injection of RM17.9 billion in funds was needed from the finance ministry to “save” Tabung Haji, he said.

“Therefore, any malicious accusations from Chegubard are completely unfounded,” he said.

The DAP leader demanded Badrul apologise and retract his claims or he would file a suit in court.

He pointed out that Badrul had to apologise to him in May over two other Facebook posts in 2019, after Pua had filed a suit in court.

Yesterday, Badrul claimed that a contract worth RM4.53 million was given to Cyber Village by Tabung Haji for the maintenance of the pilgrim fund’s THIjari online platform.

He questioned why the contract was given to a company owned by non-Muslims, claiming it was not in line with Tabung Haji’s purpose.