MAICCI: Take Malaysian Insight heads to task

KUALA LUMPUR: Directors and shareholders of The Malaysian Insight should be censured if there is evidence of wrongdoing by the news portal, suggests a business organisation.

Malaysian Associated Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (MAICCI) president Tan Sri Kenneth Eswaran accused the news portal of carrying fake news.

He said it should be determined whether the portal was indeed using foreign funds to discredit the Prime Minister and his government, and if illicit funds were being used for that purpose.

“We think it’s about time that appropriate action is taken to bring the culprits to book.

“We want this to be a lesson to those who think they can mislead the people through fake news,” he told a press conference after MAICCI’s 20th management council meeting here yesterday.

Eswaran, who said MAICCI had obtained a list of the portal’s directors and shareholders, added that it would seek legal opinion on whether it should lodge reports to the police or Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission.

He said the meeting also unanimously supported the leadership of Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, whom he described as the “Father of Indian Development”.

“While we face problems in the global economy, we have a leader like Najib who led the country to a growth rate of 6.2% in the third quarter despite all the challenges,” he added.