Selangor aide arrested after tweet about Melaka governor’s convoy

Selangor aide arrested after tweet about Melaka governor’s convoy

Scenes from a video posted by Jay Jay Denis last month about a convoy carrying Melaka governor Ali Rustam.


PETALING JAYA: A special officer to Selangor menteri besar Amirudin Shari was arrested by the police this evening after a tweet last month about the convoy of Melaka governor Ali Rustam.

Jay Jay Denis.

Jay Jay Denis said in a Twitter posting that three officers from Alor Gajah police had detained him and he was being taken to Melaka in relation to a police report lodged against him.


He said the police report was believed to be linked to his posting on Sept 6 of a video said to show Ali’s convoy leaving a restaurant in Medan Damansara, Kuala Lumpur.

In his caption, Jay Jay claimed to have witnessed Ali’s convoy of “eight (police) outriders and three escort vehicles” blocking traffic on the Sprint Highway before making a U-turn, with Ali then emerging from one of the cars.


“I thought there was an important official national function. But no,” he said, claiming that Ali was at the restaurant for a family dinner.

Denis’s lawyer, Ambiga Sreenevasan, said he was released at about 11.30pm after making a statement. His smartphone was confiscated.

She said he was being investigated under the Penal Code for statements conducive to public mischief.