Prime minister Najib Razak's defence of a RM40 million income concession to Sabah UMNO has captivated condemnations from Pakatan Rakyat.
"No one believes a contributor will present to a ruling celebration for free. If a donor is a businessman, afterwards it contingency be formed on profit as well as detriment as well as not simply welfare," pronounced PAS vice boss Mahfuz Omar.
In 2008, a Sabah office worker was held perplexing to filch Singaporean currency notes worth RM40 million into Malaysia before boarding a moody from Hong Kong.
Last week, minister in a Prime Minister's Department Nazri Aziz told parliament that a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission had categorised a RM40 million income as concession for Sabah UMNO as well as therefore not an offence.
When asked, Najib had insisted that "it was not an offence" as well as refused to yield more details on a generous funders, arguing that a opposition was "guilty" of a same thing.
But Mahfuz pointed out BN's hypocrisy in a whole affair.
"If a celebration is someone BN dislikes, there will be a witchhunt like what happened to SUARAM," he said, in a anxiety to a government's one after another nuisance opposite a tellurian rights NGO after a latter spearheaded a graft inquiry in France that threatenebed to expose BN leaders' involvement in a argumentative squeeze of Scorpene submarines that generated RM500 million in kickbacks.
DAP's Petaling Jaya Utara member of parliament Tony Pua meanwhile slammed Nazri for proposing a new law aimed at preventing 'foreign intervention' by a liqu! id of un familiar funds, saying it was "impractical" as well as "hypocritical".
"Hence before Nazri has any locus standi to introduce any such unfamiliar appropriation laws, he contingency first divulge a source of unfamiliar appropriation that UMNO has received, in such vast sums. If a appropriation was so legitimate, why was a income to be 'imported' illicitly in cash, as well as in Singapore Dollars?" Pua asked.
-Harakahdaily
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