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Wednesday, August 12, 2015

AFTER WSJ EXPOSÉ, PKR HAULS PM, 1MDB TO COURT FOR ALLEGED ELECTORAL OFFENCES

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(Malay Mail Online) – As a follow-up to the Wall Street Journal‘s (WSJ) exposé last month on the RM2.6 billion in Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s accounts, PKR announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against the prime minister and several others, accusing them of violating election laws on campaign expenses.
According to the party’s central executive council member Sivarasa Rasiah (pic), other defendants named in the suit are Umno secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor, 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and the Election Commission (EC).
He said the suit, filed today, includes Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Nurul Izzah Anwar, Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad, Chua Tian Chang and Saifuddin Nasution Ismail as plaintiffs.
In a report on July 2, US-based daily WSJ, citing documents from Malaysian investigators currently scrutinising the troubled 1MDB’s financials, claimed that a money trail showed that US$700 million (RM2.6 billion) was moved among government agencies, banks and companies before it ended up in Najib’s accounts, two months before the 13th general election in May 2013.
It was previously alleged that the funds were used for Barisan Nasional’s (BN) Election 2013 campaigns but detractors have pointed out that this would be illegal as RM2.6 billion far surpasses the legal limit allowed by Malaysia’s election laws.
Last week, Malay Mail Online reported the EC as calling for legislation that requires all political parties to declare their sources of funding to make elections more transparent.
EC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Yusof pointed out that the election agency does not have any investigative powers to find out if election candidates spend more than the limits of RM200,000 for parliamentary seats and RM100,000 for state seats, as they only rely on receipts submitted by the candidates.
Aziz said the EC would report to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and to the police if it received complaints with supporting evidence that an election candidate had spent more than what was reported to the EC.

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