She said the “court records shall speak for itself” in disputing Jamal’s allegation that the trial was not conducted fairly, after he failed in an earlier bid to inspect several Selangor government documents classified under the Official Secrets Acts (OSA).

“As to his further uncalled-for utterance (in alleging Kok played a part in ‘manipulating’ the documents), I shall be taking further legal advice and reserve my rights to legal recourse,” Kok told FMT.

Yesterday, the High Court ruled that the Sungai Besar Umno division chief was liable for defaming Kok in 2017.

Jamal had accused her of misappropriating Yayasan Warisan Anak Selangor (Yawas) funds under the state government’s Skim Mesra Usia Emas (SMUE) initiative.

Judicial commissioner Arief Emran Arifin ordered him to pay RM300,000 in damages to Kok.

Jamal later said he would file an appeal against the court’s decision, insisting that the trial “did not comply with the established procedures”.

He cited the court’s ruling to dismiss his bid to inspect the state documents classified under the OSA.

He claimed that the documents needed to be reviewed “to confirm whether it really is classified as ‘restricted’ or if this was just manipulation by the plaintiff (Kok)”.

On May 10, Kok lodged a police report against Jamal saying that he possessed the OSA documents.

The documents in question are the minutes of meetings on SMUE in 2016, a report on a cash book, a district office’s bank adjustment statement, and a feedback meeting on the system coordination of SMUE.

Police said they had opened an investigation against Jamal under Section 8 of the OSA.