Inspector-General of Police Razarudin Husain, who was not named in the suit, said police will cooperate with the AG to come up with an affidavit.

“I will leave it to the AG to answer on this matter,” Utusan Malaysia quoted Razarudin as saying.

The suit was filed by former Esscom intelligence chief Mat Zaki Zain against Acryl Sani and 10 others, including former Selangor police chief Jalil Hassan as well as the present Kuala Lumpur and Selangor police chiefs, Rusdi Isa and Hussein Omar Khan.

Mat Zaki is seeking RM100 million in damages, claiming he and three others were falsely charged with the murder of an e-hailing driver in January last year. They were subsequently acquitted.

He said their reputation and good name were damaged by their criminal case as it had gone viral on the mainstream, alternative and social media, giving rise to the assumption that they were guilty of the crime.

He claimed the charges were false and that the plaintiffs were still recovering from the trauma caused by the defendants’ wrongful actions and accusations.

Mat Zaki, 59, and eight others were acquitted by the Tawau High Court in January of a charge of murdering Nurman Bakaratu, 61, after Nurman’s former wife, Nurimah Juli, 35, confessed to the murder during her testimony.

Mat Zaki had faced two charges of conspiring to murder Nurman under Section 109 of the Penal Code read with Section 302 of the same law.

He was charged alongside six police officers and one civilian – Rosdi Rastam, 45, Denis Anit, 45, Fabian Rungam, 44, Khairul Azman Bakar, 47, Azlan Sakaran, 40, John Kennedy Sanggah, 44, and Vivien Fabian, 34.