Najib insists Saudi govt is RM2.6 billion donor after Riyadh denial

Updated 5 years ago · Published on 26 Oct 2018 11:47PM · 6 Comments

Former prime minister Najib Razak leaves the Kuala Lumpur Court Complex following his arraignment, yesterday. He faces 38 counts of criminal breach of trust, money-laundering and misuse of power over a sum f RM2.6 billion found in his bank account, which prosecutors charge did not come from the Saudi government but from troubled state fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Najjua Zulkefli, October 26, 2018.

NAJIB Razak tonight reiterated that the RM2.6 billion discovered in his bank account was a “donation” from the Saudi Arabian government.

He took to Facebook to respond to a news report earlier tonight of the Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Ahmed Al-Jubeir telling his Malaysian counterpart Saifuddin Abdullah that Riyadh had nothing to do with the money.

The former prime minister wrote that he had already explained in a post last month, along with photos of letters and bank transaction slips, that money was from the Saudi Arabia’s Finance Ministry and that he had returned it four months later.

“Even though Foreign Minister Adel Ahmed Al-Jubeir has confirmed twice before, with his own mouth, that Saudi Arabia had donated the money to me, tonight Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah is saying that Adel has told him that the RM2.6 billion had nothing to do with the Saudi government.

“Last month, I provided proof of the letters from the donor… and bank documents to prove that the donations that were sent to my account were directly form the Finance Ministry of the Saudi government and from Arab princes,” Najib wrote.

In his post tonight he shared an earlier post from September 13 which carried photos of a letter dated March 1, 2013, from Prince Abdulaziz Al-Saud about US$800,000 that would disbursed to Najib in stages.

In that letter, the prince also stated that the money would be channeled to Najib either from the prince’s personal bank account or through other vehicles including Tanore Finance Corp..

“Almost all the funds of RM2.6 billion have been returned four months after I received it.

“I have been charged for receiving it and also for returning it,” Najib said.

Bernama reported tonight that Adel, who visited Wisma Putra today, told Saifuddin that the Saudi government has got nothing to do with the RM2.6 billion donation .

But in 2016, Adel had said in an interview that the money was a donation from the Saudi royal family.

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,” Adel was quoted as saying.

Najib is facing 38 counts of criminal breach of trust, money-laundering and misuse of power over the RM2.6 billion, which prosecutors charge did not come from the Saudi government but from troubled state fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd. – October 26, 2018.
 

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  • Then, could this private Saudi citizen alluded to above who gave the donation in fact be the late Saudi king (if he was still alive at that time?) If yes, was the donation an "investment" meant for the furtherance of the cause of Islam in Malaysia by the provision of funds which included money to ensure the Muslim-dominated govt was returned in the general elections? If yes. It might explain the disbursements of various monies to Barisan Nasional component parties? Is the foregoing mini-analysis too far-fetched? Will Najib go on the witness stand to explain?..

    Posted 5 years ago by MELVILLE JAYATHISSA · Reply

  • You clown. Your letters are fake. Yoir donors did not exist. You created fictitious offshore companies. The only real thing is you robbed the people of Malaysia

    Posted 5 years ago by ASK LAZIE · Reply

  • Can someone explain how shuffling RM2b between King Abdullah and Najib help promote the cause of Islam?

    Posted 5 years ago by Roger 5201 · Reply

  • All should realize now how an intervention of a foreign country in our administration even in the monetary form can jeopardize the safety and security of our nation. Our leaders should seriously take this episode of Najib as a lesson.

    Posted 5 years ago by Tanahair Ku · Reply

  • The letters look fake. Wont be surprise that the letter is drafted and forged by Jho Low as an after thought.

    Posted 5 years ago by Rupert Lum · Reply

  • Enough of Najib ploy. Expedite his trial and send him to the gallow. Let him meet his maker and explain his reasoning over there in the under world. Hang all his cohorts as well. Why is PH wasting public time, space and money. We fully know that all the crooks in UmnoBN who are involved in 1MDB do not deserve at all any mercy. Hang them all !!!!!!!!!!!. Period. No need to bring in anymore fresh evidences or talks about it. If this hkeep on dragging it will only anger the rakyat and the outcome will be different with a dire conclusion.

    Posted 5 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply