An Umno leader has dismissed claims that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak had disclosed that another RM900 million will be injected into 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) during a meeting with division chiefs.

He was responding to PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli who said he heard this from an Umno division chief who attended Sunday’s closed-door meeting.

However, the meeting’s organiser and Cheras Umno division head Syed Ali Alhabshee described the allegation as "another opposition fiction".

He also dared Rafizi to disclose his source in order to validate his claim and not to hide behind an anonymous source.

"I challenge him to name the Umno division chief. I deny this happened," he told Malaysiakini .

"There was no such discussion (on the fresh injection of funds into the ailing firm). If you claim it was a division leader who told you, then tell us who," he said.

'I don't know how to lie'

According to Syed Ali, this is the problem with the opposition, which the Umno man alleged to be fond of concocting stories.

"Rafizi is creating a story. The opposition does that, just like Sept 16 (Anwar Ibrahim’s claim of toppling the BN government in the aftermath of the 2008 polls).

"They are good at wayang (charades). They think everyone is stupid. I will tell you the truth, nothing else. I don’t know how to lie,” he added.

Meanwhile, DAP's Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua cited a report in today’s Singapore Business Times, which said the Malaysian government extended a nearly RM1 billion loan to 1MDB amid the controversies surrounding the fund.