Vincent Tan's Injunction Application (fwd)

["M.G.G. Pillai" <pillai@mgg.pc.my>]

New Straits Times, 8 March 00, p14:

VINCENT TAN'S INJUNCTION APPLICATION

Kuala Lumpur -- The High Court today fixed March 17 to hear an
injunction application by Berjaya Group Berhad chairman Tan Sri Vincent
Tan Chee Yioun to stop a former journalist from sending alleged
defamatory e-mail messages about him.

In an inter partes summons application dated March 3, Tan, Berjaya Group
and Berjaya Sports Toto Berhad are seeking an injunction to restrain
former Sun Media Corporation Sdn Bhd journalist Ganesh Sahathevan from
further writing, publishing or circulating the words concerning Tan.

In an affidavit supporting the application, Tan Said Ganesh had been
sending numerous and repeated correspondence and e-mail messages to
various persons and authorities both in Malaysia and elsewhere since he
was dismissed from Sun Media on Jan 14, 1997.

Tan said Ganesh was dismissed for various acts of misconduct.  Tan is a
substantial shareholder and director of Sun Media.

He said Ganesh published the words to vent his personal spite for the
motive of defaming and punishing the plaintiffs for not succumbingto his
demands to pay him compensation for his dismissal.

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MGG:  Mr Ganesh Sahathevan lives in Sydney, where Tan Sri Vincent Tan
sued him, along with a company he controls.  That cases wends its way
into the courts there.  Amidst this, Tan Sri Vincent sends him a writ to
Mr Sahatheven at his father's house in Klang, and a copy posted to his
address in Sydney.  Mr Sahathevan tells me the inter partes summons is
not in that bumpf he received.  He has passed on the documents he
received to his lawyers in Sydney, where Tan Sri Vincent, no doubt,
would explain why he took the course of action he took in Malaysia.