Bersatu president Muhyiddin Yassin today said his party will be writing a letter to the MACC with a request to unfreeze its accounts, which are currently under probe.
Muhyiddin, who again denied claims that Bersatu had received ill-gotten funds while he served as prime minister, said the request was made partly to ease the party's operations including payment of wages to its staff and office rentals.
"Bersatu will write a letter to the MACC today so that the freeze can be lifted.
"Once our accounts are frozen, we as an important and major political party, have no money to pay wages for even a month, and now they are saying the freeze is for three months," said the Perikatan Nasional chairperson at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur after a retreat for the coalition's parliamentarians.
"We are asking as much as possible, after checks have found there are no impropriety or abuse of power, MACC must expedite their decision to unfreeze the accounts," Muhyiddin added.
MACC chief commissioner Azam Baki on Tuesday confirmed that Bersatu’s accounts had been frozen to facilitate investigations under the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Act.
The revelation came just one day after the party declared its 2020 and 2021 accounts, in an attempt to counter allegations of corruption.
[More to follow] - Mkini
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