PARLIAMENT PKR’s Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli today moved a motion to refer Deputy Finance Minister Ahmad Maslan to the rights and privileges committee for “misleading” the House over the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) issue.

Ahmad Maslan told the Lower House last Thursday that the government never issued a letter of support undertaking a RM 9.6 billion borrowing by 1MDB.

But Pakatan lawmakers have made public the letter since then, before several financial dailies quoted Ahmad Maslan admitting the existence of the letter.

Rafizi moved the motion in the House today under Standing Order 36 (12) and 80A for lying in the Parliament.

Yesterday, he sent in his motion letter to the office of the speaker, Pandikar Amin Mulia.

Pandikar said he would make a ruling on the matter tomorrow or Monday, depending on the clarification given by Ahmad Maslan.

"I'll write to the deputy minister and I will ask him to submit all the relevant documents before I make a decision," he said.

Ahmad Maslan, while wrapping up the budget debate for the Finance Ministry last Thursday, categorically stated “the offer letter doesn’t exist”.

But he issued a statement on Saturday, two days latter, admitting the existence of the support letter but nevertheless insisting that he did not lie in the House as the support letter is still not considered a guarantee.

He had previously stressed that the government only guaranteed RM 5.8 billion of 1MDB’s borrowings, which stands at RM 42 billion to date.

Rafizi has claimed that 1MDB’s debt is now the second largest in the country, only lagging behind the federal government’s debt.

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