DAP criticised Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki and accused him of being vindictive for targetting those who levelled allegations against him.
“How many Opposition MPs and leaders will he persecute to spite those who exposed his lies that his shares trading account was operated through his brother by proxy?” its secretary general Lim Guan Eng said in a statement.
“Instead of protecting whistleblowers, the MACC is persecuting them. If you think we will back down, think again! Opposition MPs will not desist but persist to get to the bottom of the truth.”
Following the expose on Azam shares’ holdings worth millions, he had filed a suit against Independent News Service (INS) reporter Lalitha Kunaratnam for defamation.
Yesterday, it was revealed that the MACC will be charging Sungai Buloh MP Sivarasa Rasiah’s service centre manager Naveen K Rasiah on a corruption allegation levelled four years go.
“Almost four-and-a-half years have passed since the investigation was completed in September 2017. No action was taken against Naveen in that time and in fact, the file should have been closed.
“Now, a month after I had raised the issue of Azam’s ownership of shares in Parliament on Dec 14 last year, an allegation which had no basis has suddenly been revived by MACC to charge my staff, Naveen,” the PKR MP stated yesterday.
Naveen is also Sivarasa’s nephew.
On that note, Lim said that he emphatised with Naveen’s plight, highlighting his own ongoing corruption case which was revived despite being closed four years ago.
MACC chief compromised
“Sivarasa must be feeling really bad. The same happened to my wife where she is being charged for her legal earnings as a lawyer that was properly accounted for and had been levied,” the former finance minister lamented.
Training his guns against Azam, Lim claimed that the former would go all out to protect whatever is left of his battered reputation by throwing baseless accusations against Opposition leaders who were just doing their job to expose wrongdoings.
“Malaysia is earning a bad image, where the top graft-buster of the country is embroiled in controversy.
“Unfortunately, Azam has refused to explain his lie or his source of wealth, which had allowed him to conduct shares trading amounting to millions of ringgit but insisted that the Securities Commission (SC) had cleared him of any wrongdoing when it was not the case,” he mentioned. – Jan 24, 2022
