RM2.6 billion donation not from us, says Saudi minister

Updated 5 years ago · Published on 26 Oct 2018 8:57PM · 15 Comments

Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah says Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Ahmed Al-Jubeir has ensured that the Saudi government will cooperate in investigations into the 1Malaysia Development Bhd financial scandal and the alleged donation of RM2.6 billion. – EPA pic, October 26, 2018.

THE RM2.6 billion donation allegedly received by former prime minister Najib Razak has nothing to do with the government of Saudi Arabia.

This was said by Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah, who revealed that Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Ahmed Al-Jubeir said as much during the latter’s visit to Wisma Putra today.

Touching on the 1Malaysia Development Bhd financial scandal and the alleged donation of RM2.6 billion, Saifuddin also said Adel had ensured that the Saudi government would cooperate in the investigations regarding the two issues.

In an interview back in 2016, Adel had backed Najib’s claims that almost US$700 million (RM2.6 billion) transferred into his account was a donation from the Saudi royal family.

Najib was cleared in January of the same year by former Malaysian attorney-general Apandi Ali, who said the cash was a gift from the royal family in Saudi Arabia.

However, in July this year after Najib’s Barisan Nasional government was defeated in the 14th general election, Adel told The New York Times that he did not believe the funds were from the Saudi government.

“It was a private Saudi citizen, I believe, and the funds went to an investment in Malaysia,” he told NYT.

Najib is facing 38 counts of criminal breach of trust, money-laundering and misuse of power involving the RM2.6 billion, which prosecutors said, was not from the Saudi government, but from troubled state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). – Bernama, October 26, 2018.

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  • Hypocrites, Liars, Murderers, Mutilators, Friends and Financiers of Enemies of Allah & Rasulullah.

    Posted 5 years ago by Ghifari Mukhtar · Reply

  • so now the ball is back to jibby and zahid to prove otherwise, just who is the right mind would give out such a huge amount

    Posted 5 years ago by Teruna Kelana · Reply

  • These guys who brutally torture murder dismember and then dispose of the body of their citizen like it was an animal carcass cannot be trusted. They wear white robes seemingly to show themselves as being holy and supposedly guardians of the holiest shrines in Islamyet they lie and lie and continue to lie and deceive even when caught in their violent acts to suppress dissent. We should have nothing to do with these scoundrels

    Posted 5 years ago by Michael Raj · Reply

  • All of those crooks will twist and turn their part of the story to escape the truth and the story continues...the main character still revolves around Jibby, the fat mama and the fatty boy.

    Posted 5 years ago by Will Be Humble · Reply

  • Trust these wahhabbis Saudis at our own peril.

    Posted 5 years ago by Rupert Lum · Reply

  • REPORTED IN 2O16 THAT IT WAS A SAUDI DONATION?..

    Posted 5 years ago by MELVILLE JAYATHISSA · Reply

    • The intrigue continues for the foreseeable future! How to know if a gift from the late Saudi king (if he never told anyone) in his personal capacity (nothing to do with the Saudi govt) then?..

      Posted 5 years ago by MELVILLE JAYATHISSA · Reply

  • I am sure the Arab foreign minister is telling the truth now as he does not have to protect this LIAR here anymore

    Posted 5 years ago by CY W · Reply

  • Zahid staked his political career on allegedly meeting with Najib's donor and sighting the original documents for the 2.6b which we now know has nothing to do with Saudi gomen. Adel Ahmed Al-Jubeir now believes it was a private Saudi citizen and the funds went to an investment in Malaysia. If this is the case, who did Najib return his billions to?

    Posted 5 years ago by Roger 5201 · Reply

  • Pls sue najibbye for slander then

    Posted 5 years ago by ASK LAZIE · Reply

  • The fund was from a private camel by the name of Sheikh al-jholow bin Sheikh Al-WanEmDiBee.

    Posted 5 years ago by Chee yee ng · Reply

  • Like Sultanah of Trengganu acting against Brown for implicating her in the 1MDB scandal, this prince should sue Najib too for implicating the royal family. No action? You crook!

    Posted 5 years ago by Tanahair Ku · Reply

  • It is sufficient to my jurisprudence that Najib was telling the truth all along because the Foreign Minister Adel Ahmed Al Jubeir of Saudi Arabia had told the New York Times in July this year2018 thatquote unquote:
    "It was a private Saudi citizen who had donated the fund and the funds went to investment in Malaysia".
    In an interview back in 2016, Adel Ahmed Al Jubeir had said and backed Najib's Claims that it was a donation from the Saudi Rayal family.It was a gift to Najib from the Royal family in Saudi Arabia.
    This week the Mass-Media said that Mahathir Mohammad is up to his old tricks again, using the law against his enemies.Despite Mahathir Mohammad refusing,delaying tactics to abolish the'Sedition Act', the MassMedia is forging a pathway for freedom of speech online for the global ears.
    Mahathir Mohammad wasted his efforts and RM6.3 million of ourTreasury money going oround the world to wag his forged tongue to character assasinate The Honourable Name of Najib Tun Razak. By vocally insinuating globally the good name of the late Tun Abdul Razak'son,the name of 'Malaysia' is also blacken.Like the blacken eye that Mahathir Mohammad had asked the reluctant Police to do to a deputy Prime Minister, to Anwar Ibrahim when Anwar was imprisoned for almost 18 years.At that time then nobody counted the cost incurred when Mahathir Mohammad went globe -trotting also as Prime Minister that time and was spinning yarns of stories saying,"Anwar is a sodomiser"and so on.
    Now you see the serpent snake that Mahathir is.If you get too close you will get bitten.You can die.I have warned you .Mahathir has not changed .His mind has not changef.It is still the draconion dictator and it his his song to do it 'My Way'.
    To defeat Najib Tun Razak it took a LOW down man with no principles like Mahathir Mohammad.
    Please let my write-up be archived in REUTERS through the many links of themalaysianinsight.com.Thank youmightily.

    Posted 5 years ago by Luxshmi Sriyan NH De Silva · Reply

  • Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Ahmed Al-Jubeir has just pulled the magic carpet from under Najib. Is he about to swear again on the quran re-his RM2.6b donation from King Abdullah? Does ex-MO1's still maintain Apajadi has cleared him of any wrong doings and the donation has nothing to do with 1MDB, Eric Tan or Jho Low?

    Posted 5 years ago by Roger 5201 · Reply

  • This Saudi Adel is a shameless liar.Different days talk different.He is just a suck up to the murderous MBS his boss.If Najib was still in power he would continue to suck up to the thief.

    Posted 5 years ago by Soma Govin · Reply