ARE MALAYS SO GULLIBLE: Now, all 1MDB critics must say sorry for blaming Najib

KUALA LUMPUR - The arrest of PetroSaudi International Ltd’s former employee is prove that has vindicated the Prime Minister from allegations of 1Malaysia Development Berhad’s (1MDB) wrongdoings, says Parti Cinta Malaysia.

Its vice-president Datuk Huan Cheng Guan said Swiss national Xavier Andre Justo who was arrested by the Thai police on Monday has put many to shame for jumping to first words of accusations without properly checking the facts put forward.

“Thai police who arrested him (Justo) charged him with attempting to blackmail and extort the company, said it was part of a plot to discredit Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

“All detractors who made their baseless and vile accusations on the PM and 1MDB must now retract their statements and apologise for not verifying the information they sourced from Sarawak Report,” said Huan in a press statement today.

He quoted a news report by English daily New Straits Times which stated that some of the documents published on Sarawak Report were found to have been tampered with.

This, he said, called for actions to be taken against all irresponsible individuals that have caused the country damage in its international reputation.

“That any citizen is ready to assume that anything on the Internet is truth shows the shallow mentality and complete absence of thinking skills.

“That writers can churn out article after article, slamming the government without checking on the veracity of the purported documents in Sarawak Report is a disgrace to the media world.

“It does not take much effort to check the forensics of those documents or to verify the information via a simple phone call.”

huan also claimed that he himself had uncovered discrepancies in the allegations and controversies surrounding the national sovereign arm but refused to share the information as the public’s was already made up.

He went on to criticise former Premier Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s attacks on 1MDB, calling for the country’s longest serving Prime Minister and other critiques to publicly apologise for “shaming” the country.

“The point is Sarawak Report and all other writers who slammed the Prime Minister and 1MDB officials never bothered to check the authenticity of the documents, preferring to discredit our authorities even though they had all the contact details of those involved.

“As for other public figures, that has discredited our Prime Minister and 1MDB locally and internationally, a public apology on an international scale is mandatory to restore our country’s reputation,” he added, questioning if Tun Mahathir is now willing to “eat his words.” - Therakyatpost