AIRASIA Group Berhad – now known as Capital A Berhad – has filed a defamation suit against the author and chief executive officer of a news portal over the publication of an article with regard to the company’s half-a-billion-ringgit loan from the government.

Capital A filed the suit in the Kuala Lumpur High Court through Messrs Steven Thiru & Sudhar Partnership on March 21, naming the author of the malaysianow.com portal, Azzman Abdul Jamal, the portal’s chief executive officer and editor, Muhammad Abd Ar-Rahman Koya, and MNow Media Sdn Bhd as the first to third defendants.