Corruption

Would MACC approve the appointment of a convicted corruption criminal as a Cabinet Minister?

By Kit

January 04, 2022

(Versi BM)

A website reported on Sunday that there was going to be a Cabinet reshuffle and four Ministers will be replaced – the Finance Minister, Tengku Zafrul Aziz; the Minister of Youth and Sports, Ahmad Faizal Azumu; the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Abdul Latiff Ahmad, the Minister for Women, Family and Community Development Rina Harun would be replaced by, among others, Najib Razak as Economic Adviser in the Prime Minister’s Department, Ahmad Maslan as Finance Minister and Shahril Hamdan as Minister for Youth and Sports.

I do not know how true is the report but appointing Najib Razak to any Ministerial position or post would be crossing the “red line” and will jeopardise the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) Memorandum of Understanding (Mo0) signed by Prime Minister Ismail Sabri and the four Pakatan Harapan leaders on Sept. 13, 2021.

It is the common practice to forward a list of intended appointments whether to the Cabinet or to any high government position to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) for clearance.

Would the MACC approve the appointment of a convicted corruption criminal as a Cabinet Minister?

Has this anything to do with the two-month conspiracy of silence on the part of the Ismail Sabri and the MACC Chief Commissioner, Azam Baki on the serious allegations of conflict-of-interest which was made public more than two months ago, to the extent that the Malaysian Government and the MACC are prepared to allow their commitment to anti-corruption efforts to be compromised?

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Tuesday, 4th January 2022)

Adakah SPRM akan meluluskan pelantikan penjenayah yang disabit bersalah sebagai Menteri Kabinet?

Sebuah laman web telah melaporkan pada hari Ahad yang akan ada penyusunan semula barisan Kabinet dan empat orang Menteri akan digantikan – Menteri Kewangan, Tengku Zafrul Aziz; Menteri Belia dan Sukan, Ahmad Faizal Azumu; Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Abdul Latiff Ahmad; Menteri Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga, dan Masyarakat, Rina Harun, dengan Najib Razak sebagai Penasihat Ekonomi di Jabatan perdana Menteri, Ahmad Maslan sebagai Menteri Kewangan, dan Shahril Hamdan sebagai Menteri Belia dan Sukan.

Saya tidak pasti berapa tepatkan laporan ini, tetapi melantik Najib Razak ke apa-apa jawatan bertaraf Menteri dikira sebagai melanggar “garisan merah” dan akan membahayakan memorandum persefahaman (MOU) kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi (CSR) yang ditandatangani di antara Perdana Menteri Ismail Sabri dengan empat pemimpin Pakatan Harapan pada 13 September 2021.

Menjadi amalan biasa untuk memanjangkan senarai cadangan pelantikan sama ada ke dalam Kabinet atau apa-apa jawatan tinggi kerajaan ke Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) untuk semakan.

Adakah SPRM akan meluluskan pelantikan penjenayah yang telah disabitkan bersalah sebagai Menteri Kabinet?

Adakah perkara ini berkaitan dengan kesunyian selama dua bulan daripada Ismail Sabri dan Ketua Pesuruhjaya SPRM, Azam Baki, mengenai pertuduhan serius tentang konflik kepentingan yang telah didedahkan lebih daripada dua bulan yang lepas, sehingga Kerajaan Malaysia dan SPRM bersedia untuk berkompromi dengan usaha pencegahan rasuah mereka?

(Kenyataan Media (2) Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Selasa, 4 Januari 2022)