FORMER prime minister Najib Razak has been branded a traitor by Utusan Malaysia, the Malay-language paper owned by his party Umno, following revelations that he had ordered the doctoring of an audit report for the Parliamentary Accounts Committee on the scandal-ridden 1MDB.
In an editorial penned by the newspaper’s team of editors under the pseudonym Awang Selamat, it also voiced its deep disappointment on the action of a group of former senior civil servants who were allegedly in cahoots with Najib.
“If it’s true this really happened, this is betrayal of the highest order on the trust placed by the people on Najib and the civil service.
“It is especially so for these senior civil servants, with the oath of service they had taken to uphold the good name of the civil service, have now scarred and defaced it,” the editorial stated.
The claims of alterations and falsification related to the presence of fugitive billionaire Low Taek Jho, or better known Jho Low, in a 1Malaysia Development Berhad board meeting with Najib.
Auditor-General Dr Madinah Mohamad today confirmed Najib ordered the fact that Low was present at a 1MDB board meeting be deleted from the final audit report.
Najib also ordered the removal of 1MDB’s financial reports and the recommendation of a full investigation into the company’s accounts.
She said the doctoring of the report had the support of her predecessor, Ambrin Buang; former chief secretary to the government Ali Hamsa; and former Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) commissioner Dzulkifli Ahmad.
the malaysian insight
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