Jamal raises RM66k for Teresa, then recommends she invests it in pigs
Having raised RM66,000 at a private auction this morning, Jamal Yunos wasted no time offering Seputeh MP Teresa Kok some unsolicited entrepreneurial advice: to use the sum to start a pig farm at her house.
The dig was classic Jamal. Settling a debt with one hand whilst lobbing a provocation with the other.
The sum was in outstanding court costs from a defamation case brought by Kok.
The money was raised through the auction of two rather unlikely lots: one, a single used slipper, and the other, a towel he famously wore during a protest outside the Selangor State Secretariat building in 2016, when he demonstrated against water shortages in the state.
Both items fetched RM33,000 each. One of the winning bidders, Jamal claimed, intends to have the slipper’s image printed and delivered to Kok as a gift.
“So there were two bidders, one from Negeri Sembilan, Indian, who bid for the towel, and another one from Sabah, Sarikei, or Sandakan, I can’t remember. He bid RM33,000 for the slipper - one of my slippers - and he said he will gift it, he’ll have the slipper printed first and then send it to Kok in due course.
“He will settle the payment. So when I receive the payment, which I expect today, we will pay Kok, so that she can start a small business rearing pigs at her home.
“That is, if her house is not in Selangor. If it’s Seputeh, I believe Seputeh is in the federal territories, so she would be able to use this RM66,000 to start a small business at the back of her house, or in her compound, to rear or farm pigs. God willing, we will settle this case once we receive the money,” Jamal said in a video posted on Facebook.
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Teresa ‘overstepped’
He insisted that the auction was an act of dignity rather than desperation, arguing that Kok had overstepped by enforcing the court order when, in his view, a settlement arrangement was already in place.
The enforcement, he said, had led to court officers and police entering his home and breaking down his gate.
“I am confident, and I believe that what I have done today is something to reclaim my honour, which she tried to tarnish.
“With a court order that already had a settlement standing, yet she still violated it, to the point where my house was broken into, and my gate was broken. Court officers and police who were obliged to carry out their duties under the court order entered my house.
“So I would like to say thank you to Kok, and I do hope that with this RM66,000 for her to start a venture, a small business of pig farming at her home becomes a reality,” Jamal added.
Jamal’s road to auction
The Kuala Lumpur High Court, in 2022, ordered Jamal to pay RM300,000 in damages and RM50,000 legal costs to a defamation suit filed by Kok against him, over statements he made during a press conference concerning Yayasan Warisan Anak Selangor funds.
Kok, in her suit, alleged that Jamal had implied she misappropriated state government funds for personal gain and portrayed her as unethical.
Jamal then appealed against the High Court’s verdict. The Court of Appeal in 2024 dismissed his appeal and directed him to pay RM50,000 in costs.
On March 29, 2023, a different Court of Appeal panel allowed Jamal to defer payment of the RM300,000 damages, but ordered him to deposit the sum with Kok’s law firm pending the outcome of his Federal Court appeal.
On July 30, 2024, the Federal Court rejected Jamal’s application for leave to appeal, ruling that it did not meet the threshold under Section 96 of the Courts of Judicature Act 1964.
The court had seized 14 of Jamal’s items on Jan 28 to recover RM66,061.85 in outstanding legal costs owed to Kok.
On the same day, Jamal told reporters that he planned to auction several pairs of his slippers and shoes to pay Kok.
Pig farming has far more dignity than the likes of you. You spew filth and then sell filth to pay for fine. Tak malu ka?