Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak should place his faith in the US justice system and allow an ex-Umno member to provide the FBI with his stash of 1MDB documents, says a newsman. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, September 26, 2015.
Former Umno leader Datuk Seri Khairuddin Abu Hassan should be allowed to provide the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with his supposedly “fake and doctored” documents on 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), said Datuk A. Kadir Jasin.
Writing in his blog, the former New Straits Times Group editor-in-chief said there was no reason for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to fear the former Batu Kawan Umno vice-chief if the latter was lying.
Instead, Najib should have faith in the American justice system to act against Khairuddin if the 1MDB papers were fake.
“If Khairuddin is a liar and the documents in his possession were fake or doctored, why should the prime minister fear him?
“Being a good friend of the US, he should have faith in the US justice system and allow Khairuddin to provide the FBI with the fake and doctored documents.
“Let the US arrest and prosecute him for lying. Lying to a US government agency is a criminal misdemeanour.”
Kadir also said Khairuddin’s arrest, as well as that of another sacked Umno member Anina Saadudin, showed that intimidation had become Najib’s strategy.
Anina was sacked after filing a suit against Najib to make him account for a RM2.6 billion political donation channelled into his personal accounts.
A staunch critic of Finance Ministry-owned debt-ridden 1MDB, Khairuddin was first arrested by police at his home in Mont Kiara last Friday.
Earlier on the same day, he and his lawyer Matthias Chang were barred from leaving the country by Immigration officers at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar had said Khairuddin was detained as his move to use foreign enforcement agencies to put pressure on Malaysia over the 1MDB issue could be deemed as an act of sabotage against the country.
Khairuddin first lodged a police report against 1MDB, which has debts of RM42 billion, in December last year, and was subsequently sacked from Umno for being declared a bankrupt.
He recently lodged reports with authorities in Hong Kong, Switzerland, France and the United Kingdom against the troubled firm, of which Najib is advisory board chairman.
It was reported that he was on his way to meet FBI officials in the United States when he was barred from leaving the country.
He was remanded for six days after his arrest on Friday and, on Wednesday, was rearrested under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act (Sosma) 2012 as he walked out of a courtroom at the Jalan Duta court complex where a magistrate had released him.
Under Sosma, a suspect can be detained without trial for up to 29 days.
- TMI
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