PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli has trained the spotlight on documents which purportedly list those who received payments from the SRC International funds transferred into Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's personal bank accounts.
The documents were uploaded on a blog called sprminsider.blogspot.my in 2016. The Communications and Multimedia Ministry has since blocked access to the site.
Speaking at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur this afternoon, Rafizi said he decided to raise the issue because he believes that the documents were genuine.
"All transactions were checked one by one against the paper held up by attorney-general Mohamed Apandi Ali (during a press conference on Jan 26, 2016) which detailed the money trail from SRC through several companies before ending up in Najib's accounts.
"All the information in the documents uploaded on sprminsider is accurate, as stated on the paper held up by Apandi," he added.
Rafizi was further convinced of the authenticity of the documents after he investigated the names of the companies and individuals named in the documents.
He claimed that most of them were linked to Umno or Najib himself.
Among more than 30 recipients stated in the documents was jewellery store De Grisogono in Arzachena, Italy, which purportedly received 10 separate payments amounting to 763,500 Euros (RM3,595,916.53 based on the current exchange rate) in 2014.
The other purported recipients on the list include several media-related agencies, other firms, Umno and BN divisions as well as various individuals.
Malaysiakini is in the process of contacting the alleged recipients for comments.
One of the companies named in the documents as having received funds from Najib's personal accounts is Centre for Strategic Engagement Sdn Bhd.
"I don't know if (the transaction) is real or not. What I can confirm is that we do constituency studies and media monitoring for various BN parties and we do charge clients for our services.
"I don't question my sources. These dealings are all properly invoiced and recorded," its chief executive officer Soong Fui Kim told Malaysiakini when contacted.
Malaysiakini has also verified the account number associated with the Centre for Strategic Engagement as stated in the documents.
Najib denied abusing public funds
Rafizi further alleged that according to the documents, these transactions only occurred after RM27 million was channelled into Najib's accounts from Permai Binaraya Sdn Bhd on July 8, 2014.
It had been previously reported that Permai Binaraya was incorporated just one month before making the hefty transaction.
It was also reported that SRC transferred RM35 million to Putra Perdana Construction Sdn Bhd, which transferred RM34.99 million to Permai Binaraya, which eventually made the RM27 million transaction to Najib.
These funds appear separate from the RM42 million that was reportedly transferred via SRC subsidiaries Gandingan Mentari Sdn Bhd and Ihsan Perdana Sdn Bhd.
Najib has repeatedly denied abusing public funds for personal gain with regard to the sum in his bank account, RM2.6 billion of which was said to be a donation from a Saudi royal.
Attorney-general Mohamed Apandi Ali has also cleared him of any wrongdoing.
In a written parliamentary reply on April 3, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Paul Low said the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has completed its investigations into SRC International.
The single-paragraph reply also disclosed that MACC has recorded the statements of all witnesses involved.
He was responding to Lim Kit Siang (DAP-Gelang Patah), who asked whether MACC was still trying to track down the three individuals linked to the investigations since August 2015.
The three individuals are SRC International managing director Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil, director Suboh Md Yassin and businessman Jho Low.
MACC had managed to record statements from Low and Suboh by December 2015, but Nik Faisal remained elusive.
SRC International is a former 1MDB subsidiary, which among others, is accused of transferring RM42 million into the prime minister's accounts.
In clearing the prime minister, Apandi had said there was also no evidence to show that Najib had any knowledge or had been informed that monies had been transferred into his personal account from SRC International, a former 1MDB subsidiary, which is now under the Finance Ministry helmed by Najib.
He said evidence also indicated that the prime minister was of the belief that all payments made to him was from the Saudi royal family donation transferred into his personal accounts earlier.- Mkini
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