KUALA LUMPUR (April 29): Berjaya Corp Bhd (BCorp), which last week denied that its founder Tan Sri Vincent Tan Chee Yioun had participated in talks to revive a US$100 billion (RM477.60 billion) Forest City casino resort as reported recently, has lodged reports for the police to commence investigation into the above matter, specifically to, amongst others, ascertain and find out the purported “unnamed source” who disseminated complete untrue and false statements.

In a statement on Sunday, BCorp said it trusts the police will take necessary action in conducting their probe into this matter.

“We respectfully encourage any publication to be done more tactfully before making any allegations without prior verification,” it said.

In a statement on April 26, BCorp said the article had included inaccurate information that misrepresented the conglomerate’s supposed involvement in discussions with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim regarding the Forest City project.

In the latest statement, BCorp said it strongly believes the publications and/or republications of the articles were done with malicious intent, aimed to cause political upheaval, undermine public trust and distort the public’s perception on the King, Sultan Ibrahim, and Anwar.

"Such malicious publications are further aggravated by the fact that neither news agencies had made any attempt whatsoever to verify nor confirm the veracity and accuracy of the statements in the articles before publishing the same, especially when the statements were attributed to an 'unnamed source',” it said.