International business daily Wall Street Journal (WSJ) needs
to provide at least four trustworthy witnesses to back its graft allegations
against Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul
Hadi Awang said.
Citing the same position his party took in Datuk Seri Anwar
Ibrahim’s sodomy case, Hadi said Islam dictates that these four witnesses are
necessary to validate the newspaper’s report last week which claimed that some
US$700 million (RM2.6 billion) from state investor 1Malaysia Development Berhad
(1MDB) had been channelled to Najib’s private accounts.
“Our stand is the stand of Islam. If four witnesses are
needed for Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s case, then it is the same with the
allegations against Najib, there has to be witnesses...fair witnesses.
“We follow the fundamentals of Islam, what is good we
support, what is not we oppose,” Hadi was quoted saying in Astro Awani after
performing tarawih prayers at a Ramadan event in Kota Baru.
According to an Utusan Malaysia report, however, Abdul Hadi
had said there should be two, not four, witnesses to prove WSJ’s allegations.
The PAS president also reportedly denied that his comments
meant the party had changed its tune to support Umno and Barisan Nasional.
“We are consistent in preventing current affairs from
burdening the public. I don’t want the public to be sacrificed, let change
happen through the right process,” he was quoted in the Malay daily as saying.
On Friday, the WSJ reported that 1MDB investigators have
discovered five separate deposits from two sources that were allegedly made
into Najib’s accounts, citing government documents that it claimed to have
viewed.
The largest two transactions, it said, were for US$621
million (RM2.3 billion) and US$61 million allegedly made in March 2013, shortly
before the tumultuous Election 2013 in May.
A further transfer of RM42 million, purportedly made into
Najib’s account at the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015, is believed to
have come from SRC International Sdn Bhd, a former subsidiary of 1MDB that was
in 2012 parked under the Finance Ministry that Najib heads, WSJ said.
The exposé led to immediate calls for a thorough
investigation by opposition leaders, who also demanded that Najib be relieved
from his duty until the probe is over.
Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail announced
Saturday a special task force is currently investigating the alleged money
trail that involves several companies that purportedly channeled the funds to
Najib’s bank accounts, including SRC International, Ihsan Perdana Sdn Bhd and
Gandingan Mentari Sdn Bhd.
Source –Malay Mail Online-
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