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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Rafizi denies plot with Sarawak Report, will sue accusers

PKR lawmaker Rafizi Ramli denies allegations made in a video regarding fabricating documents in the 1MDB crisis. – The Malaysian Insider filepic, July 16, 2015.PKR lawmaker Rafizi Ramli denies allegations made in a video regarding fabricating documents in the 1MDB crisis. – The Malaysian Insider filepic, July 16, 2015.
PKR secretary-general Rafizi Ramli has denied Barisan Nasional's (BN) claim that he and other opposition leaders had conspired with website Sarawak Report to fabricate information about 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), and is mulling over legal action against those making this allegation.
Rafizi said the police report lodged about a supposed video in which a former Sarawak Report editor "confessed" to the plot was a smokescreen to cover up 1MDB's scandals.
"It is a conspiracy to cover up the issue of 1MDB by creating a picture as if it is a plot by opposition leaders, when in fact, the exposes made by YB Tony Pua and myself arose from answers from the Finance Minister himself in Parliament," Rafizi said in a statement today.
The PKR lawmaker also said he had never communicated with Sarawak Report founder and editor Clare Rewcastle Brown about 1MDB.
The only time they had been in touch was over information about an alleged logging scandal in Sabah, he added.
"I deny such allegations and have instructed my lawyers to study the matter for the purpose of taking legal action."
Rahman, who is also the minister of urban well-being, housing and local government, yesterday told a press conference of the video, in which a former Sarawak Report editor is said to have confessed to the plot with opposition politicians.
Rahman, however, did not show proof of the video to reporters and would not divulge its details.
He also did not name the opposition members allegedly involved, but the names, including Rafizi's, are mentioned in Umno-linked blogs that have uploaded the video.
Rafizi said that the police report about the video was lodged by an individual named Ramesh Rao Krishnan Naidu, who had also named him as one of the opposition conspirators.
Rafizi said Ramesh Rao's credibility in lodging the police report was suspect because he was known to be anti-opposition.
The Pandan MP also said the people should assess whether Rahman and Melanyi were credible figures themselves, as Rahman was known to be a staunch supporter of Datuk Seri Najib Razak and had vested political interested in defending the prime minister.
Melanyi, Rafizi said, had resigned from Bornean newspaper Sarawak Tribune for publishing controversial cartoons of Prophet Muhammad.
Rewcastle-Brown has also dismissed Rahman's claim, saying Melanyi had never worked with the website before.
Rafizi said that questions he and other opposition politicians have raised about 1MDB were based on public knowledge about the state investment firm that was sourced from the media, and also from the answers provided by the Finance Minister to their questions raised in Parliament.
- TMI

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