Why spare Najib over RM2.6 billion when ex-CID chief prosecuted, asks DAP

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak (centre) failed to declare a RM2.6 billion donation as required under the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Act 2001, says an opposition lawmaker. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, January 23, 2016.

Following the corruption charge of a senior police officer yesterday, a DAP lawmaker has asked why Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak did not face a similar probe over the RM2.6 billion donation channelled into his personal accounts.

Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng said Najib should also be investigated under the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Act 2001, the same act used to investigate former Kuala Lumpur Criminal Investigation Department (CID) chief Datuk Ku Chin Wah, who was charged in the Sessions Court yesterday with failure to declare a commission amounting to RM961,500 two years ago.

Ku was charged under Section 49 (3) with the alleged offence committed in 2014. 

Under the act, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) or the public prosecutor should serve a notice to the suspect to declare commissions received.

“This raises whether Najib declared the RM2.6 billion donation from a foreign source to MACC before the 2013 general election or if the public prosecutor had at the time sent a notice for the sum to be declared.

“If he did do so, how come he is still being investigated by MACC?

“Didn’t the authorities say this was a simple open and shut case?” Lim said in a statement today.

Lim said Attorney-General Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali should press charges against Najib if the latter failed to make the declaration as required under the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Act 2001.

He said, at the same time, the investigation into Najib’s brainchild, 1Malaysia Development Berhad, should be continued.

To uphold justice, Lim also suggested the Bukit Aman police headquarters re-examine criminal cases managed by Ku while he was Kuala Lumpur CID chief, especially high-profile cases which may have escaped prosecution.

- TMI