A government minister has taken aim at Bank Negara governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz for giving the impression that 1MDB had violated the Exchange Control Act 1953.
Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Abdul Rahman Dahlan claimed that this was despite it not being the case….
“Why did the Bank Negara governor give us the impression that 1MDB broke Bank Negara rules and regulations?” he said in a Twitter post today.
“Bank Negara is a respected institution. Reckless accusations are not helping its integrity which by the way the governor told us must be protected,” he added.
Abdul Rahman said this after Attorney-General Mohamed Apandi Ali earlier today rebutted Bank Negara’s claim that 1MDB had provided inaccurate or incomplete information in its application to move US$1.83 billion overseas.
..Bank Negara had made the accusation after the attorney-general refused to prosecute the case.
Previously, anonymous blogs had been set up to attack Zeti, accusing her of being part of a plot to topple Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.
Najib is fending off calls to resign amid several investigations into the presence of RM2.6 billion in his personal bank accounts as well as probes into his brainchild 1MDB.
Mr Abdul Rahman Dahlan is the Minister for Reckless Accusations.
It was none other than he who leapt into the fray accusing Sarawak Report of employing a ‘master forger’ by the name of James Steward Steven, who turned out to be a bus station manager in Norwich and angrily rejected his suggestions.
So, why does he not hold his horses this time and show appropriate deference towards the world respected professionals who run the Bank Negara Malaysia?
AG Apandi, on whom Dahlan presently relies, was put in position after a blatantly unconstitutional sacking of his predecessor by the beleaguered Prime Minister, who was being prosecuted over this very issue by the AG’s department.
How convincing is that?
We dare Mr Dahlan to cease such yapping and file a suit against Sarawak Report for libel in a UK court.