20 Apr 2024, 22:00 Kuching
20 Apr 2024, 15:00 London
The money Umno received from 1MDB has all been used up, and the funds currently forfeited by the Malaysian Anti-Commission Corruption should be returned as it is “clean party funds”, claims Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan.
The Umno deputy president said that he was referring to funds belonging to national-level Umno and not state Umno liaisons and divisions. All of them were listed in the Government’s civil forfeiture suit to reclaim RM270mil in 1MDB funds from 41 parties and entities.
“I am speaking about the national party’s account. As for the other accounts of Umno divisions named in the list, the ones in charge of those would have to make their own arguments. I am speaking as the head of the national party,” said Tok Mat.
“The money that MACC froze in our accounts are not the funds which the national Umno received from 1MDB. That money (from 1MDB) has long been utilised.
If you were explaining to a six year old why you removed his pocket money to pay back a friend he stole from, you might expect to get this sort of argument.
Hearing it from an adult, who pretends to be qualified to run a country beggars belief.
However, this fellow and his sort have joined up with a bunch of self-appointed moralists who proclaim the same kind of logic. PAS think they can ‘claim apologies‘ because the money they and various members received from UMNO does not feature directly on a particular list.
They appear to want people to believe that if the money they took from UMNO did not come through this particular 1MDB account used by Najib in the 2013 elections but came secretly from a separate source as Najib later sought to play dirty in the next elections, then it ought to be regarded as ‘clean’.
As any adult can tell such arguers are neither fit to preach nor govern.
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