Yayasan Al-Abrar chairman says funds for prayer programme came from private donations and not as alleged by Rafizi Ramli of PKR.
KUALA LUMPUR: Yayasan Al-Abrar has denied the allegations of PKR MP Rafizi Ramli that it received RM5 million from Prime Minister Najib Razak’s personal bank account to organise a prayer programme back in 2013.
Its chairman, Syed Mehdar Syed Abdullah, said Rafizi should repent as he was telling a huge lie.
“No, (we) didn’t receive any money from Najib. That (Rafizi’s allegation) is a lie. He should really investigate the information he obtains.
“What he has done is slander. He will have to answer to Allah. I can’t be bothered to prolong this issue,” he told FMT when contacted today.
Syed Mehdar also said that the funds used to organise the “Malaysia Bersalawat” programme were obtained from his close friends who lent their financial support.
“The money came from my friends like Syed Ali Alhabshee. I also used the money I collected. We didn’t take a sen from Najib.
“If he (Rafizi) said we received RM5 million, there must be records of transactions, among others. He can check.”
At a press conference this morning, Rafizi, who is PKR vice-president, named three recipients, who he alleged received money from 1MDB, through Najib’s private bank account.
Besides Yayasan Al-Abrar, the other alleged recipients were Najib’s aide who Rafizi said received RM2 million, and Najib himself.
Rafizi added that a sum of RM449,586.95 was paid from a credit card under Najib’s Ambank Islamic bank account to the aide.
Another transaction from Najib’s credit card, said Rafizi, totalled RM2,833,147.21.
Both transactions totalled RM3.28 million and was spent on the same day at a luxury jewellery outlet in Italy, he said, adding that Najib should explain the transactions.
This is the second such disclosure by Rafizi on the flow of 1MDB funds.
On April 13, he named former PAS deputy president Nasharudin Mat Isa as a recipient of funds linked to 1MDB subsidiary SRC International, through Najib’s lawyer Hafarizam Harun.
In 2015, The Wall Street Journal cited documents from Malaysian investigators alleging some RM2.6 billion from entities linked to 1MDB had flowed into Najib’s private accounts.
Najib has denied the allegation, saying the money was a donation from the Saudi royal family to help Umno’s campaign in the 2013 general election. -FMT
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