‘If you continue, AIDS’: Rafizi says wife received threats, son attacked after whistleblowers tipped off on scandal

‘If you continue, AIDS’: Rafizi says wife received threats, son attacked after whistleblowers tipped off on scandal



Pandan MP Datuk Seri Rafizi Ramli today alleged that his son’s assault was an attempt to pressure him into dropping pursuit of an ongoing scandal. — Picture by Firdaus Latif

Thursday, 14 Aug 2025 1:48 PM MYT


KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 14 — Pandan MP Datuk Seri Rafizi Ramli today said that a group of whistleblowers had approached him last week with information on a scandal, and alleged that an attack on his son was meant to stop him from pursuing the matter.

He said in his opinion this was a strategy to ensure that he drops the matter altogether.


“I’ve given the same statement to the police, in my view, this is an attempt to shut my mouth, meaning there is something I’m looking at and this is a message (to me) so that I hands off from that matter,” he said

“Last week, there was a group of whistleblowers who came to me regarding a scandal, that I can tell.

“It means that, whoever is behind this knows, usually when I begin to look at a scandal I will dig and dig and dig and at the same time people with information will come forward,” he added.


Rafizi said that following his son’s attack yesterday afternoon, his wife had received threatening messages.

The first message, he said, came at 1.12am with the text: “Be quiet, if you continue, AIDS”.


He said a second message, sent today at 11.02am, carried the same text but was accompanied by syringe emojis.

“I think this will continue… In my view, the message or strategy — it’s because I usually don’t take heed of summons meaning to say that I’ve been through summons, locked up, even when I lost my position I can’t be bothered,” he said

“So I think those who are involved felt that it was easier to influence my decision through my wife and I only [have] one child,” he added.

He said those behind the threats may be targeting his son to pressure his wife, knowing that if she could no longer bear it, she would tell him, which could in turn influence his decision.

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