Former international trade and industry minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali told the KL High Court on Friday (May 17) that he mentioned Deepak Jaikishan's name in his speech because of the businessman's photo with a minister on a plane.
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00:00Former International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali told the KL High
00:08Court on Friday that he mentioned Deepak Jaikishan's name in his speech at a gathering in March
00:14last year because of photographs of the businessman and a minister together.
00:19Azmin said one of the photos showed Deepak sitting beside Agriculture and Food Security
00:26Datuk Seri Mohamed Sabu on a flight to India and another of them together in a buggy.
00:32He said this when testifying in a defamation suit filed against him by egg importing company
00:39J&E Advanced Tech, Sendirian Berhad.
00:43When questioned by lawyer T Gunaseelan, representing J&E Advanced Tech, about the reason he referred
00:49the photos to the court, Azmin said it was because there was no denial from Deepak.
00:55He added that the minister confirmed in parliament that only one company was given the right
01:00to import chicken eggs, thus he questioned the photos.
01:04Azmin also told the court that he had never accused J&E Advanced Tech that it obtained
01:09the IP to import eggs illegally.
01:12He said he questioned the process of obtaining chicken eggs from India, which was not transparent
01:17and not through open tender.
01:20Last Monday, Deepak's younger brother Rajesh Jaikishan, who is J&E Advanced Tech general
01:26manager, told the court that Azmin's claim in his speech was untrue as there was no direct
01:32negotiation with the government to obtain a license to import eggs.
01:37The hearing before Judicial Commissioner Leong Wai Hong resumes on July 25 for oral submissions.
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