Dr Mahathir's forex losses attack on Murad misplaced, says minister

Updated 8 years ago · Published on 21 Dec 2017 10:39AM · 3 Comments

Communications and Multimedia Minister Salleh Said Keruak says Dr Mahathir Mohamad needs Lim Kit Siang as a political ally while Kit Siang needs Mahathir for Malay votes. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, December 21, 2017.  

DR Mahathir Mohamad unleashed a “misplaced attack” in berating former Bank Negara Malaysia assistant governor Abdul Murad Khalid over the RM31.5 billion Bank Negara forex losses, says Communications and Multimedia Minister Salleh Said Keruak.

He said the former prime minister should instead direct his anger at DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang.

“Murad merely testified in the RCI (Royal Commission of Inquiry) hearing the real amount of forex losses, which he said was RM31.5 billion and not RM5.7 billion.

“It was Kit Siang, however, who for 20 years has been asking for the RCI on Bank Negara’s forex losses,” he wrote in his blog, sskeruak.blogspot.my, today.

Yesterday, Dr Mahathir pinned the blame for the losses on Murad, claiming the former assistant governor had known about the losses but chose to keep quite about it until recently.

Salleh intimated that the two men had done a U-turn regarding the forex scandal because Dr Mahathir needed Kit Siang as a political ally while Kit Siang needed Mahathir for Malay votes.

“The level of hypocrisy demonstrated by Dr Mahathir and Kit Siang shows that they regard political expediency as more important than getting to the truth.

“Was it not Kit Siang who demanded the truth and Dr Mahathir who said he only seeks the truth?”  – Bernama, December 21, 2017.  

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  • Murad is back stabber. What is not fair about that in realm of Rule by Power?

    Posted 8 years ago by Bigjoe Lam · Reply

  • Kit Siang also asked for RCI on 1MDB. So, Salleh , are you agreeable? Politicians have forked tongues.

    Posted 8 years ago by Can Lim · Reply

  • A retard sycophant without basis but just to justify an existence for the master to take note that he can be a useful blanks.

    Posted 8 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply