PKR: Deepak proved he acted without us

PKR director of strategy Rafizi Ramli said he would meet businessperson Deepak Jaikishan, following the latter’s press conference yesterday lamenting the lack of political support.

Rafizi said while he is confident that Deepak (below) has a lot of “evidence detrimental to (Prime Minister) Najib Abdul Razak, he previously did not want PKR to be seen to be close to him.

“My fear before was that if PKR is seen to be too close with him and too cozy with him before the fact is established (that Deepak is working on his own), the whole opportunity to uncover the truth would be overtaken by Umno’s spin and allegations that we are behind this,” he said at a press conference, today.

Rafizi said the message that Deepak is acting on his own accord was achieved last night when Deepak had a press conference calling for political support, and he believed that the public could see that PKR had never had any discussions with him.

However, he insisted that the documents he disclosed yesterday, purportedly showing Deepak’s carpet trading companies purchasing jewellery for the prime minister’s wife Rosmah Mansor are authentic and came from Deepak.

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