KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 3): PKR deputy president Rafizi Ramli said the police have asked him to give them a statement on Saturday afternoon (Sept 3) regarding claims he made about the delayed RM9 billion littoral combat ship (LCS) project.

He will be at the Sentul district police headquarters at 3pm.

On Aug 30, Sayed Ahmad Mui'izzuddin Al-Sayed Mohamad — an aide to Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Special Functions) Datuk Dr Abd Latiff Ahmad — filed a police report against Rafizi.

In the report, Rafizi was alleged to to have issued several defamatory statements claiming that a woman named Zainab Mohd Salleh was involved in the LCS scandal, and that the woman is Abd Latiff's second wife.

Following the report, the police on Sept 1 obtained a statement from Abd Latiff.

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