Flying in the face of Prime Minister Najib Abdul
Razak's
denial
that the RM40 million donation to Sabah Umno was not smuggled money,
the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) , DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang
pointed out ,as yet to verify this.
Lim (
left) said thus far, the MACC has not addressed the
question of whether the money was laundered or not.
He added the only
explanation in parliament was that Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman had been
cleared of corruption as the RM40 million was a contribution to Sabah Umno and
not to the former
"Nothing has been explained in parliament as to whether
the RM40 million cash in Singapore currency which Sabah timber trader Michael
Chia had in his luggage before boarding a flight to Kuala Lumpur at the Hong
Kong International airport on August 14, 2008 and was arrested for currency
trafficking and laundering was 'smuggled or laundered money'," he said in a
statement today.
Lim questioned how either the premier or de facto law
minister Nazri Abdul Aziz, who is in charge of responding to this matter, could
possible know if the money was or was not laundered.
"There are two separate questions here: firstly, whether the RM40
million cash was a transaction in an offence of corruption, whether involving
Musa or Umno Sabah.
"And secondly, whether the RM40 million cash was
dirty money derived from corruption or illegal activities which had to be
smuggled or laundered into the country," he said.
As such, Lim said the
MACC should come clean on the circumstances of the multi-million ringgit
political contribution.
"Did MACC also clear Michael Chia's RM40 million
cash in Singapore currency as clean money and not dirty or laundered money and
If so, MACC should explain how it arrived at this finding..." he said.
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