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Sunday, August 23, 2015

ROGUE PM, ROGUE NATION: ‘We are lawless’, Ambiga says after Umno admits to receiving foreign cash aid

ROGUE PM, ROGUE NATION: ‘We are lawless’, Ambiga says after Umno admits to receiving foreign cash aid
KUALA LUMPUR - Datuk Ambiga Sreenavasan described the country as “lawless” today after what she said was a brazen admission by several leaders that foreign funds were given as donations to help Barisan Nasional (BN) stay in power.
The former Bar Council president and renowned lawyer took to Twitter to vent her frustrations, expressing disbelief in a series of postings over today’s developments in the RM2.6 billion donation controversy.
“Admission of receiving donation from foreign country to keep BN in power violates so many laws that it’s mind boggling! We are lawless,” she wrote on the microblogging site.
“The fact that our leaders can brazenly admit to money from another country shows either they don’t know the law or they don’t respect it.
“How can they take money like this to stay in power when it compromises the nation?” she asked.
Earlier today at the Sri Gading Umno divisional meeting, party leaders Datuk Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Datuk Abdul Aziz Kaprawi spoke about the controversial RM2.6 billion donation found in Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s accounts.
According to Abdul Aziz, who is also Sri Gading Umno chief, the funds were meant to help Umno fight “Jewish-backed” DAP during Election 2013.
S. Ambiga
“If we had lost in the elections, Jewish-backed DAP would have been in power... Fellow Muslim leaders recognised the DAP threat.
“If Malaysia’s Muslim government fell, the world’s Islamic struggle will crumble,” he was quoted saying in Malaysiakini.
Abdul Aziz, who is also a deputy minister, was quoted in another news portal, The Malaysian Insider, as pointing out that Najib is seen in the region as a notable Muslim leader.
Later, Zahid, who is Umno vice-president and deputy prime minister, said he met with representatives of the Middle Eastern donor who told him that Umno was not the only recipient of such donations.
“When I asked them why they donated US$700 million (RM2.6 billion) to Malaysia, they said — ‘Malaysia is not the only country we are channelling our money to. There are many more friendly Muslim countries who we are donating to’.
“They want Umno and BN to continue ruling the country,” the Umno vice-president was quoted by Malaysiakini as saying.
He also confirmed that he was told the funds was a sign of thanks for Malaysia’s fight against terrorism.
Candidates contesting in the polls are bound by a spending limit for their campaigns. According to Section 19 of the Election Offences Act 1954, candidates are permitted to spend no more than RM200,000 when contesting a federal seat and RM100,000 for state constituencies.
Last week, several PKR leaders filed a lawsuit against Najib as a follow-up to Wall Street Journal’s expose last month on the RM2.6 billion, accusing the prime minister and several others of violating election laws on campaign expenses. The international business daily was the first publication to report on the funds that it said was found in the prime minister’s accounts.
It was previously speculated that the RM2.6 billion had originated from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a brainchild of the prime minister’s that is currently under probe for alleged financial irregularities.
But the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) recently refuted this, saying the funds had come from donors from the Middle East. The commission did not, however, reveal the identity or identities of the donors. - TMI

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