PARLIAMENT | Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim (Baling-Umno) wants a royal commission of inquiry (RCI) to be set up in order to investigate the various criminal prosecution cases initiated against various Umno leaders under the previous Pakatan Harapan government.
The Umno lawmaker called his proposal the "Tommy Thomas RCI", in reference to the attorney-general at the time.
Under Thomas, Abdul Azeez (above) was slapped with 12 counts of corruption and money laundering involving a sum of RM144 million.
Abdul Azeez said the RCI can also look into court cases against Harapan leaders that were dropped.
In addition, he added that the commission could also look into claims made by Thomas in his autobiography titled 'My Story: Justice in the Wilderness'.
"I proposed to the government under Bera (Ismail Sabri Yaakob): Let us be gentlemen. We set up the Tommy Thomas RCI based on the prosecutions which have been made and his book," Azeez said when debating the 12th Malaysia Plan in the Dewan Rakyat today.
Azeez made the proposal after Mohamed Hanipa Maidin (Harapan-Sepang) questioned the MACC's integrity over Ahmad Maslan's money laundering case.
Ahmad Maslan was discharged after he paid an RM1.1 million compound.
Countering Hanipa, Abdul Azeez said some of the court cases against Harapan leaders that were dropped included DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng's bungalow matter, PKR's Pasir Gudang MP Hassan Abdul Harim's sedition case and PKR's Sungai Buloh MP R Sivarasa's case involving a fake poster posted on his Facebook account.
Following the collapse of the Harapan government, several court cases involving Umno leaders have also been dropped.
They include a discharge not amounting to acquittal for Azeez's brother Abdul Latif Abdul Rahim for alleged abetment in corruption. - Mkini
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