Attorney-general (AG) Mohamad Apandi Ali’s eagerness to close the case on Prime Minister Najib Razak’s donation issue on account of a news report is “flabbergasting”, said an opposition MP.
“Apandi should explain why he is prepared to rely on the ‘reported statement’ by the Saudi foreign minister that the billions of ringgit deposited into Najib’s personal banking accounts were ‘a genuine donation’ from Saudi Arabia ‘with nothing expected in return’, without even confirming that the Saudi foreign minister had in fact made such a statement?”
Gelang Patah MP Lim Kit Siang said this considering Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir’s statement last week was a complete about turn from an earlier statement reported in the New York Times to the contrary.
“Did Apandi seek an explanation from Al-Jubeir for his U-turn statement on the very same issue in a matter of two short months, to find out the reason for such a sudden change of mind?
“Was Al-Jubeir telling a lie in early February? If the Saudi foreign minister could tell a lie in early February, what is there to stop him from lying in his latest statement?” asked Lim in a statement today.
Following reports on Al-Jubeir’s reply to a question by Malaysian journalists in Istanbul last Thursday, Umno leaders and government officials have urged the public to put an end to the controversy over the RM2.6 billion The Wall Street Journal last year revealed to have been deposited into Najib’s accounts.
Following the Saudi official’s latest remark, the AG subsequently declared there is no further necessity to probe the said donation.
“This is because there is already a statement from the donor, so what is there left to be investigated,” the AG was quoted telling Utusan Malaysia yesterday.
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