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MP: Najib's bank accounts ‘everyone's business’
Published:  Jul 30, 2015 4:44 PM
Updated: 8:51 AM

What went into Najib Abdul Razak's private bank accounts is everyone's business, more so if the sum amounts to 5,200 years of the prime minister salary to accumulate, Kulai MP Teo Nie Ching says.

"Najib has been a politician all his life. He does not involve in business, at least not that we are aware of.

"However, his salary as prime minister is about half a million ringgit a year. He will need to work 5,200 years as prime minister in order to have RM2.6 billion in his personal bank account.

"Of course, all right-minded Malaysians will ask how, from where and from whom he received the money," Teo said in a statement today.

She was responding to Special Affairs Department (Jasa) adviser Tun Faisal Ismail Aziz ( photo ), who today defended the prime minister, stating that private accounts should be subjected to privacy .

Tun Faisal also said that anyone could make financial contributions to Najib and this would only be an issue if the money was from illegal sources.

However, Teo said the Malaysian public needed to know if the contributions were not in exchange for favours.

"While it is everybody’s right to give Najib a financial helping hand, all Malaysians deserve to know if Najib is also giving a helping to those helping him by using his executive power as a prime minister, as illustrated by Najib’s favourite quote, 'you help me, I help you'," she said.

Last month, The Wall Street Journa l in a report said RM2.6 billion had been deposited into Najib's private bank accounts.

Yesterday, former deputy prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin was caught in a leaked video as saying that he confronted Najib about the money, to which the prime minister purportedly admitted to receiving the funds.

Muhyiddin was on Tuesday dropped as deputy prime minister for criticising Najib's handling of 1MDB, which has accumulated RM41.8 billion in debt.

Najib has insisted that he never took government funds for personal gain.

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