PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob has denied meeting Perikatan Nasional chairman Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin in Jakarta recently.
The former prime minister has instructed his lawyers to take legal action against those who spread the claim, dubbed as the "Jakarta move", a news portal reported Wednesday (Dec 14).
Ismail Sabri said he was in Malaysia on Dec 8, the date of the purported meeting, and the Immigration Department could prove that he had stayed in the country.
"If you want to slander people, at least be reasonable about it. Immigration records will show that I did not leave the country. So this means that I was in the country," he said.
He added that on Dec 8, he attended the opening ceremony for the Rainforest Challenge International in Bera, Pahang.
Prior to that, he met up with a veteran journalist and even had banana leaf rice, which he posted about on Instagram.
The claim that Ismail Sabri was in Jakarta was spread on social media following his absence from the Umno supreme council meeting on Dec 8.
The individual who spread the claim alleged that the "Jakarta move" was attended by Muhyiddin, and that something was being planned.
