Kit Siang: DAP not divided on PAC Report
What’s important is the next step, he stressed. “It’s important to probe further than just the ‘tip of the iceberg’, a job which other countries of the world will do if Malaysians themselves are not up to it to get to the bottom of the truth on the 1MDB scandal.”
“This will be to the eternal shame of Malaysia.”
Lim, who has been suspended from Parliament as Gelang Patah MP, was taking the position that there’s no contradiction between what PAC Deputy Chairman Tan Seng Giaw said and the position taken by Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua that critics of 1MDB in the past year and more have been vindicated by the PAC Report about gross mismanagement and wanton neglect by those responsible for the company. “In fact, the crimes of the 1MDB scandal are even more heinous.”
Tan was correct in pointing out that the PAC Report has not directly involved Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak as being responsible for the 1MDB scandal, he conceded. “In fact, no PAC Report making such connection will ever see the light of day in Malaysia.”
Lim was commenting on “some controversy that there’s disagreement between the two DAP members on the PAC, Tan and Pua, on its Report”.
This is not the case, he assured. “However, what is more important about the PAC Report is not what was revealed, but what could be read between the lines of the Report.”
The DAP veteran wonders whether the PAC Report succeeded in laying to rest or rebutting in any manner international perceptions that Malaysia was now one of the world’s top nations in global corruption.
The sad answer is in the negative, charged Lim.
In fact, he thinks that the PAC Report will only confirm these international perceptions and doubts. “That’s why the 1MDB scandal is the subject of separate investigations by half a dozen countries, including the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and Department of Justice (DOJ) under the US Kleptocracy Assets Recovery Initiative.”
None of them will halt investigations because of the PAC Report, stressed Lim.
Anyone who has read the 106-page PAC Report cannot help getting the feeling that it was wrestling with larger forces than those it has named and identified, said Lim. “That’s why the PAC has attracted not only national, but international, interest and attention and why Najib’s RM50 billion 1MDB and RM4.2 billion mega scandals have catapulted Malaysia to among the top ten nations in the world for global corruption.”
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