Former UMNO/Barisan Nasional Ministers and officials have followed the example of the first two BN speakers, Zahid Hamidi and Wee Ka Siong, in the continuing debate on the royal address in Parliament to shroud the international 1MDB money-laundering scandal in a conspiracy of silence, deploying all sleights-of-hand and employing all possible stratagems and devices to do so, as illustrated by the following:
Firstly, staging of a 65th birthday bash in Parliament House for Datuk Seri Najib Razak, which had never happened in Najib’s nine-year premiership and the testimonial by his wife, Rosmah Mansoh, that Najib is “a very truthful man and he is on the right path” – a testimonial and the person giving the testimonial which very few in Malaysia or the world would regard as credible at all.
Secondly, Wee Ka Siong creating a mountain out of a molehill claiming that the Prime Minister’s replying to a parliamentary question on behalf of Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng could be because of Guan Eng’s incompetence or Tun Dr. Mahathir’s lack of confidence in Guan Eng.
In fact, there was nothing wrong in what happened as Mahahtir would be the proper person to answer Zahid’s question about Japanese loans as it was Mahathir himself who during his visit to Japan in the middle of last month had raised the subject of Japanese yen credit in the form of soft loans partly to retire old loans to offset high borrowing costs. In fact, the Parliamentary Opposition Leader, Zahid Hamidi, might have wrongly directed his question to the Finance Minister.
But what eclipsed both these incidents were the denial by Najib of signing off RM470 million from 1MDB to UMNO/BN parties – for how is this to square with former UMNO Minister and Barisan Nasional Back Benchers’ Club Tan Sri Shahrir Samad’s admission of receiving RM1 million from Najib after Sarawak Report revealed in August 2015 that Najib had distributed 1MDB monies of RM1 million to Shahrir and RM2 million to UMNO Deputy Minister, Datuk Ahmad Maslan after the 13th General Election.
In fact, in November 2015, the former MCA President, Datuk Seri Chua Soi Lek made a startling revelation about Najib’s RM2.6 billion “donation” scandal in his personal banking accounts before the 13th General Election, when he recollected how Najib had in a BN Supreme Council meeting before the 13th general election made an “unprecedented pledge to fund BN component parties”.
Chua had said:
“I remember clearly. I was the first to thank him.
“I said I have joined politics for more than 20 years and have gone through five general elections. (We) have never received a single sen from BN before.
“So everyone agreed and many thanked him. When the election came, he delivered – he was able to disburse some funds (to the component parties).”
It would appear that the chickens have now come home to roost.
The onus is on Najib to prove that the hundreds of millions of ringgit channelled from his bank accounts to BN parties in the past were not from 1MDB.
(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Parliament on Tuesday, July 24, 2018)
#1 by Bigjoe on Wednesday, 25 July 2018 - 10:55 am
What Najib actually said was “its not from 1MDB, his conscience is clear, we were very clear when we issued the checks, it did not come from 1MDB, he would not issue the checks if they came from 1MDB, the source of funds must be established very clearly”..
In other words, Najib appear to suggest he can establish that there other source of funds which begged to be asked from where? Also who did he meant by “we”???
Najib’s personal account had other source of funds that is yet to be established than what is already known publicly. Follow the money, it will lead to more dirt. Also, who was the one book-keeping his check book??
Najib is clearly trying to prevent UMNO from being drained of resources. He still has control of the party and a crippled UMNO will mean the ouster of his supporter in UMNO will cut his legs of any hope for himself.