Hell to pay if RM2.6b were in my accounts, says Kit Siang

KUALA LUMPUR: Suspended Gelang Patah MP Lim Kit Siang wonders would happen to him if he had RM2.6 billion in his bank accounts from foreign sources.

He has no illusions on the matter but still wants to know from Attorney-General Mohd Apandi Ali whether he would be exonerated and whether it would be declared that he was not guilty of any wrongdoing and that no charges would be preferred against him.

“I would say that I did not know who had deposited that gargantuan sum of money in my account.”

“I would say that I had returned 78 per cent of the deposits two months later, i.e. RM2.03 billion out of the RM2.6 billion, to the donor without saying what I had done with the balance RM570 million.”




Lim, who is also DAP Parliamentary Leader, is sure that he would be pilloried in the Umno/Barisan Nasional (BN)-owned or controlled media, print, electronic and social media, as a traitor to the country.

“I would face a battery of charges in court as a corrupt person who received funds from foreign sources who want to interfere in the domestic affairs of the country.”

The DAP veteran was commenting on the immediate reaction of “shock and outrage” by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) special operations director Bahri Mohd Zin following the Attorney-General exonerating Prime Minister Abdul Najib Razak.

“His comment that the MACC would ‘most likely’ appeal against the AG’s decision, as the cases were so ‘straightforward’, was a mere understatement.”

“The AG’s decision has sparked a firestorm both in the country and worldwide.”

Lim was once again revisiting the Attorney-General rejecting the investigations and recommendations of the MACC and exoneratIng the Prime Minister of any wrongdoing or crime on the RM2.6 billion donation and the RM42 million SRC International scandals.




“The AG decided that no charges would be brought against Najib,” lamented Lim. “He even instructed MACC to close all investigations on the matter as far as Najib was concerned.”

For the past six days, noted Lim, Malaysia has been the “bad boy” of the international media, flayed as a country where the Rule of Law was treated as a joke. “This is because of the AG’s decision.”

“This a sober reminder to the Najib Government that Malaysia operates in an open international society and borderless world where every one of its decisions and actions must be able to stand up to international scrutiny.”

Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, “continued Lim, won no favours when he tried to stop the conflagration of the firestorm over the Attorney-General’s decision.

“He said a few hours after the AG’s announcement that ‘no one should question the competence or independence of Malaysia’s institutions or our legal process’.”

Zahid, said Lim, was acting like King Canute trying to stop the tide.




Source from FMT News