Nothing to do with ‘drug kingpin’: Akjan also says he need not depend on Warisan for business
Published on: Monday, January 08, 2024
By: Hayati Dzulkifli
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Left: Akjan with the police report. Centre: Clips from the viral video. Circled is the suspected drug kingpin. At right: Some of the money he said was earned legally from business and government contracts.
Kota Kinabalu: Businessman-activist Datuk Mohd Akjan bin Datu Ali Muhammad denied any involvement with an alleged drug cartel leader now in police remand, although a person standing beside him in a viral video happens to be the suspect.
Akjan said he was being defamed through the video clip that linked him to the suspect and suggesting that he earned money through drug trafficking.
Akjan who is President of Pertubuhan Permuafakatan Perpaduan Masyarakat Peranakan Suluk Bajau Sabah said:
“Although the photo depicted in the viral video is genuine, it was taken in 2016 after a Hari Raya Aidil Fitri celebration when the alleged drug leader and 20 people from Sandakan and Lahad Datu came to my house wishing to join Pekida Malaysia. I was one of the leaders and members in the NGO at that time.
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