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Saturday, March 24, 2018

Pua to Najib: PAC report never said you didn't steal from 1MDB either



Public Accounts Committee (PAC) member Tony Pua admits that the committee's report on 1MDB does not say that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak stole money from the state investment fund.
However, he points out that the report never mentions that the prime minister did not steal funds from 1MDB either.
“The prime minister’s role in the monstrous RM50 billion scandal was never mentioned in the PAC report simply because the PAC was never allowed any opportunity to investigate Najib.
“And yet despite the PAC never ever investigating the origins of the RM2.6 billion, Najib has the cheek to tell Malaysians throughout the country that the PAC has 'cleared' him of any wrongdoing,” said Pua in a statement today.
Najib yesterday insisted he had not been implicated by the PAC's investigation on 1MDB, pointing out how it was never claimed in the PAC report that he had stolen 1MDB funds.
But while former PAC chairperson Nur Jazlan Mohamed had agreed that Najib should be summoned for his role in 1MDB, Pua pointed out that Nur Jazlan's successor Hasan Arifin had rejected all attempts to summon Najib to testify to the PAC.
“The BN members of the PAC blocked all such attempts with the excuse that 'the prime minister is not involved’ or 'Najib isn’t relevant to the investigation'.”
The Petaling Jaya Utara MP also pointed out how the scope of PAC's investigations was limited to reviewing 1MDB's financial statements.
“There was no scope given for investigating the purported RM2.6 billion 'donation' that went into the personal bank account of the prime minister,” he said, citing page six of the PAC report.
And despite repeated requests by the auditor-general and the PAC, 1MDB had never submitted the financial statements of its overseas bank accounts, said Pua.
“Without these crucial documents and evidence, how in the world could the PAC ever claim that Najib never took money from 1MDB?”
Pua also questioned whether the proposed law on fake news would bar the prime minister from “propagating more lies and half-truths”.
“Or will the new law endorse official government’s fake news and punish everyone else who points out the naked emperor?”
Meanwhile, Pua's party colleague, DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang similarly slammed Najib for what he believes to be the most “blatant, greatest and worst fake news in Malaysia” in light of the prime minister's latest declaration.
The Gelang Patah MP challenged the prime minister to quote the chapter and verse from the PAC report which was tabled in Parliament in April 2016 that had cleared him of wrongdoing in the 1MDB scandal.
“I am prepared to attend any news conference or event presided by Najib for him to quote the chapter and verse from the PAC report which cleared him of wrongdoing in the 1MDB scandal,” said Lim.
Lim said Najib's insistence that the PAC had cleared him of wrongdoing has thrown an unflattering light on the anti-fake news legislation, expected to be tabled in Parliament next week.
“Malaysians are entitled to ask whether the government’s anti-fake news legislation is to protect Umno/BN’s fake news and to give immunity and impunity to Umno/BN leaders, propagandists and 'quinoa cybertroopers' who concoct and peddle such fake news.
“If not, will the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and the police initiate action against the prime minister beginning with investigations?” asked Lim. -Mkini

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