Lawyer Rajsurian Pillai said the 30-year-old man was detained soon after he came to the Wangsa Maju police station here to have his statement recorded.

“He was asked to be present at the station at 3pm. They also seized his mobile phone before the arrest,” said the lawyer who accompanied the suspect to the police station.

Rajsurian said a police officer from Bukit Aman was there to record his statement.

“The officer also produced a notice under Section 6 of the Emergency Ordinance to remove the tweet which is alleged to be fake news,” he said.

Rajsurian said his client was released on police bail, adding that police declined to reveal who lodged a report to commence investigations.

The man with Twitter handle @nizamiks is said to have tweeted about the RM70 million allocation on May 29.

On June 5, a 36-year-old salesman, whose Twitter account is Abah @ChairmanGLC, was detained at the Kota Damansara police station for a similar offence.

Police raided the man’s house where they seized several electronic gadgets, including a handphone, modem and router.

The suspect also had to surrender his Twitter account password to the authorities.

Rajsurian, who also represented the man, said the client was freed after investigation under Section 4(1) of the Emergency Ordinance (Essential Powers).