Selangor Menteri Besar Amirudin Shari has denied allegations that he had personally received "monthly payments" from vice syndicates purportedly operating in the state.
Amirudin (above) also described the allegations by Twitter account @edisi_siasatmy as being baseless.
"On allegations linking me to monthly payments from illegal gambling syndicates, I deny this claim that is absolutely without basis.
"I vehemently deny the claims," he said in a statement shared by the Selangor Information Centre (PINS) on Twitter yesterday.
The Sungai Tua assemblyperson was responding to @edisi_siasatmy's claim that he has been personally receiving RM150,000 in monthly payments from illegal gambling syndicates and the money was used to fund political activities.
Given Amirudin's denial, PINS also said the public now awaits similar statements from other parties named in the @edisi_siasatmy's series of exposes on alleged cover-ups of illegal gambling syndicates in Selangor.
Police, MACC implicated
Aside from Amirudin, the initial series of tweets also implicated the police, MACC officers and local council officers in purported illicit payments to protect illegal gambling joints.
In its latest response, @edisi_siasatmy tweeted that while Amirudin's denial was expected, Selangor residents should question themselves on the real status of gambling operations in their area.
"If it was an old lady in business by the roadside, the enforcement officers will be there in a flash, but why can't they see the gambling joints?" it tweeted.
Since September, an anonymous administrator of the Twitter account had taken aim at various enforcement authorities, allegedly based on information from internal sources.
Among others, it had exposed the missing US$6.94 million in cash seized by MACC officers as part of a corruption probe against former Malaysia External Intelligence Organisation (MEIO) chief Hasanah Abdul Hamid.
Police had said no report was formally lodged on the missing money prior to the expose.
The MACC subsequently confirmed that three of its senior officers were remanded for six days to assist in the investigation into allegations of abuse of power and malfeasance. - Mkini
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