Pandikar rejects motion to discuss 1MDB, again

Chan Kok Leong Chan Kok Leong Updated 6 years ago · Published on 6 Mar 2018 3:13PM · 5 Comments

Dewan Rakyat Speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia says if he allowed a motion by the Alor Star MP relating to 1Malaysia Development Bhd, he would have to revisit his previous decisions to reject similar questions on the state investor. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, March 6, 2018.

IN what may be the last sitting before Parliament is dissolved, Dewan Rakyat Speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia has turned down yet another emergency motion relating to 1Malaysia Development Bhd.

Alor Star MP Gooi Hsiao Leung (PKR) saw his motion, urging Prime Minister Najib Razak to explain why the government did not intend to claim confiscated luxury yacht Equanimity, rejected under Section 18(7)(c) of the Standing Orders.

The RM1 billion yacht, owned by businessman Low Taek Jho, was confiscated by Indonesia on February 28.

Attorney-General Mohamed Apandi Ali said Malaysia would not claim the yacht, as it did not own the vessel.

Gooi’s motion was said to have gone against Sections 23(1) and 23(1)(g).

Section 18(7)(c) allows the speaker to refuse any motion presented to him if it contravenes the Standing Orders, while Section 23(1)(c) states that questions submitted should not contain any argument, interference or opinion, or be deemed trivial.

Section 23(1)(g) states that questions submitted in the Dewan Rakyat should not be prejudicial to a court case.

“We want the prime minister to answer in Parliament if he has instructed the attorney-general to recover the assets that were seized by the US Department of Justice because they were bought with money from 1MDB,” said Gooi.

He said Prime Minister Najib Razak must explain the matter, following the Equanimity’s seizure.

Pandikar said if he allowed the motion, he would have to revisit his previous decisions to reject similar questions on 1MDB.

“The yacht is being investigated, and that’s why I’m not allowing the motion to be discussed.” – March 6, 2018.

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  • When GE 14 is over and UmnoBn is out, please make sure that this incompetent fool will not be a speaker for good and also his gratuity should be withheld for review and all his assets be scrutinised by MACC and Taxation Dept. He is placed as a speaker by UmnoBN to void whatever motion initiated by opposition or even within UmnoBN parlimentarian if it goes against his master.

    Posted 6 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply

  • If you don't get over this biggest scandal and put behind history, this nightmare will keep coming back to haunt the government over and over again. Is this what you want?
    Foolish, isn't it?

    Posted 6 years ago by Tanahair Ku · Reply

  • Go ahead, bury and deny this scandal of the century called 1MDB, Malaysian voters will have their day, in coming months, years, even 30 years later -- criminals will pay and do the time.

    Posted 6 years ago by Kuasa Rakyat · Reply

  • I agreed with Pandikar. 1MDB is a "dirty" word should not utter in Parliament.

    Posted 6 years ago by Yong Yeok Fong · Reply

  • ///Riza Aziz, the stepson of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, had claimed that US$94 million of 1MDB funds which ended up in accounts he had access to, was a gift from Aabar BVI, said the US Department of Justice (DOJ).
    "(Riza) Aziz claimed, including in his 2012 US tax return, that this money was a 'gift' from Aabar-BVI," it said in its suit yesterday.///--From Malaysiakini

    1MDB made payment to Aabar BVI to settle its joint venture capital to IPIC. IPIC lodged a case at the London Commission of International Arbitration claiming that 1MDB had not made payment. To the 1MDB board in KL, the money sent to Aabar BVI was for the benefit of IPIC. Now Riza Aziz confirmed that he received a gift from Aabar BVI, with the money originated from 1MDB. The stepfather received from Saudi RM 2.6 billion as a gift. The stepson told US government that he received a GIFT of USD 94 million FROM Aabar BVI, which received money from 1MDB. So the person who controlled the Aabar BVI bank account has given 1MDB the account details for money to be sent, ostensibly to pay IPIC, but intended as gift to Riza Aziz and possible many others but not IPIC.

    Posted 6 years ago by Meng Kow Loh · Reply