PETALING JAYA: A furious Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has given Umno Online a 48-hour window to withdraw articles attacking his son and to issue an apology before he lodges a police report against it.Pro-Umno blogs had last week accused Lim’s 16-year-old son of outraging the modesty of a female classmate which resulted in him being transferred to another school.
The bloggers also claimed that Lim had paid the girl’s family RM200,000 to keep the issue under wraps.
The accusations, however, turned out to be baseless after the girl was found to be a 21-year old chess champion from Hong Kong named Anya Corke who has since issued a statement denying the incident.
The headmaster of the boy’s former school as well as Penang education director, Ahmad Tarmizi Kamaruddin, both confirmed that the allegations were untrue.
In spite of this, however, Deputy Prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin said that a denial was not enough to prove the boy’s innocence and challenged Lim to lodge a police report.
“I wanted to put the matter to rest so as not to affect my young son,” Lim said in a blog posted today. “He had skipped school for two days when the lies first surfaced.”
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