Return 1MDB money to public coffers, Kit Siang tells recipients

DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang said today any political parties or politicians who received money from funds diverted from 1MDB should return it to the government.

“All political parties and politicians, including MPs of the 13th Parliament, should return to public coffers any funding and donations they had received from the 1MDB scandal,” he said in a statement today.

Lim also urged those who had “aided and abetted” former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak and the 1MDB scandal to apologise to the country by tomorrow, so they do not carry this matter with them into 2019.

“They have two days to make a clean breast of their past as enablers of Najib’s kleptocracy, and to declare and demonstrate their regret and contrition for not standing up to the crime of global kleptocracy and failing the nation – or they will carry the cross of being enablers of Najib kleptocracy into the new year."

According to Lim, this includes ministers in Najib's cabinet, the then-Dewan Rakyat speaker, MPs and media practitioners who helped suppress the 1MDB scandal, as well as political leaders who accepted money from the fund.

Lim also criticised those remaining in the BN coalition for failing to concede that 1MDB was a “monstrous scandal” or repudiate Najib in the seven months since Pakatan Harapan came to federal power.

“In this context, the recent appointment of Najib to the Umno advisory committee is a clear sign of Umno's unrepentant role of its infamous kleptocratic past,” he said.

This is why, he added, the 1MDB scandal must be kept in the limelight until the country develops a culture of zero tolerance for corruption.  -Mkini