PAS wants Clare Rewcastle-Brown to provide more proof she was paid by the party, after the Sarawak Report editor confirmed receiving RM1.42 million for legal fees as part of a deal to settle Abdul Hadi Awang’s defamation suit.
The party’s vice-president, Idris Ahmad, challenged the UK-based journalist to make known details such as who signed the cheque.
“It is easy to prove such allegations (are wrong). Unlike the RM90 million said to have entered our (PAS’) account.
“This is easier. All of the documents are with her, so why not show us?”
Sarawak Report has confirmed that PAS paid RM1.42 million towards the portal’s legal fees to settle its president’s suit against Rewcastle-Brown over a 2016 article alleging that RM90 million had changed hands from Umno to the Islamist party.
The whistle-blower site said this was part of the arrangement for the out-of-court settlement inked on January 24, and that it agreed to Hadi’s withdrawal of the case on condition that both parties kept the payment confidential.
Rewcastle-Brown said PAS leaders have repeatedly breached the confidentiality condition.
Deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man last night reiterated the party’s line, that it did not pay Sarawak Report a single sen when dropping the suit.
“We could have continued our suit, but it would have cost four to five million (ringgit), money that could have been given to a tahfiz, or to help the poor. Even if we won, the damages that would be paid to us would not have been that much,” he said at a ceramah in Semenyih.
He said no costs were paid to PAS by Sarawak Report or vice versa after both parties agreed to the out-of-court settlement.
PKR president Anwar Ibrahim recently said he has evidence, in the form of bank statements, that PAS paid the portal RM1.42 million.
PAS information chief Nasrudin Hassan, meanwhile, said the bank account number on the cheque, a photo of which is being widely shared, is fake.
“Some people have checked the account number (in the photo) by attempting to make transfers of RM5 and RM1 to the account, but the account does not exist,” he said on Facebook.
In his post, Nasrudin included the “correct” number of PAS’ Bank Islam Malaysia bank account.
The account number does not match the one in a document published by Sarawak Report in its article confirming the receipt of the RM1.42 million from PAS. – March 1, 2019.
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