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Sunday, July 5, 2015

Kit Siang: Will Najib sack AG for switching sides?

DAP veteran speculates about Gani Patail and WSJ info, and asks Najib to spell out Mahathir's demands.
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JOHOR BAHRU: As the controversy over 1MDB and Najib Razak gathers force, Opposition veteran Lim Kit Siang has raised speculation about the position of the Attorney-General, Abdul Gani Patail, stemming from publication of leaks about 1MDB funds.
Lim wondered if Gani had switched sides to the camp of 1MDB’s fiercest critic, Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
Further, the DAP adviser also raised a question mark over prime minister Najib Razak’s remark on Saturday about refusing to allow Malaysia to being “ruled by proxy” and of Mahathir’s personal demands.
Lim, speaking at a political ceramah here this morning, raised his query about Gani Patail in view of the Attorney-General’s statement yesterday confirming that he had viewed documents relating to a Wall Street Journal report of financial transactions resulting in 1MDB-linked funds being channeled into the prime minister’s accounts.
The Journal had stated on Friday that its report was based on documents which had been viewed by the Attorney-General and government leaders and “would have been seen, and were seen, by the prime minister”.
In defence of the Wall Street Journal, which has been threatened with legal action, Lim said: “Clearly, the WSJ was only reporting what the government special task force on 1MDB had discovered to date”. He added that anyone challenging the WSJ report was actually questioning the credibility of the government’s own task force.
Pointing out that the Attorney-General had now appeared to have validated the Journal’s report, Lim asked if Gani Patail had joined Mahathir’s camp in what Najib has described as Mahathir’s campaign of “political sabotage”.
However, he gave no further reasons for raising suspicions about the Attorney-General, but raised the possibility that Najib might pre-empt any move to prosecute him by dismissing Gani and appointing “a new and more pliable AG”.
Yesterday, Lim had questioned whether Gani would dare to use his powers under the law to prosecute a sitting prime minister, suggesting that the political reality would be against such a step.
Gani Patail is serving his final term as Attorney-General, and there had been speculation earlier this year that prominent Umno lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah might be appointed to succeed Gani.
However, Lim made no mention about the circumstances of Gani’s current contract.
In further speculation, Lim questioned Najib’s remarks that “unsubstantiated and many simply outrageous” claims had been made against him and his family after he refused to carry out Mahathir’s personal demands.
Najib had said he had refused Mahathir’s demands because “I do not believe it is right for Malaysia to be ruled by proxy.”
Lim suggested that Najib should spell out Mahathir’s demands, pointing out that “nobody knows what Najib is actually referring to”, so that the public could decide who to believe.

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