A Malaysian court has ordered opposition leader and former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to pay more than $300,000 to another politician in a defamation case, state media said on Friday, adding to the former prime minister’s legal troubles.

Muhyiddin, who was prime minister for 17 months between 2020 and 2021, is charged with sedition for allegedly insulting a former king, and with corruption and money laundering in separate cases.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court on Friday ordered Muhyiddin to pay 1.35 million ringgit ($308,078) in damages for his defamatory statements against former Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng in a series of Facebook posts in March 2023, Bernama news agency reported .

The court also ordered Muhyiddin to retract his statements and issued an injunction to prevent the allegations from being repeated.

Muhyiddin’s lawyer Chetan Jethwani was not immediately available for comment.

Bernama reported that Jethwani said Muhyiddin would object.

According to local media reports, Lim said on Friday that he was grateful for the verdict as the allegations against him were false and unfounded.

Muhyiddin had said that Lim had revoked a tax exemption for a charity when he was a minister from 2018 to 2020. Lim sued Muhyiddin for what he said amounted to an accusation that he had abused his position.