#asset declaration

Not a single kidnapping or extortion case since asset declaration initiative was taken last year, says VK Liew.

PARLIAMENT | MPs now have until Dec 5 to declare assets, recommendations on the IPCMC bill will be heard tomorrow.

Only 27 out of 59 state reps submitted their assets declaration forms to the MACC before the Oct 23 deadline.

Its president explains that paying taxes only allows the IRB to track one's income but not assets.

Opposition MPs from Umno, PAS maintain refusal to declare assets, despite being compelled by law to do so by October.

UPDATED 7.45PM | She warns that those who obtain assets by illegal means will be referred to the MACC.

She adds that the MACC is now collecting information pertaining to MPs' liabilities.

Every assemblyperson is given three months to declare their assets, including those of their spouse and children.

MP SPEAKS | Umno, PAS, MCA and MIC senators voted in bloc yesterday against the motion.

Among those not in favour was Umno's Khairul Azwan Harun, who termed it as Harapan's 'strategic communications scheme'.

'Only the corrupt or those protecting the corrupt are fearful of public declaration of assets,' says Lim Guan Eng.

ADUN SPEAKS | Hadi's assertion that asset declarations are a communist concept is absurd and nonsensical.

DAP leaders question how asset declaration is either socialist or communist in nature.

He thinks the PAS chief should back up his claim that declaring one's assets is related to communism.

S Arutchelvan thanks Hadi and Mahathir for giving credit where it is due.

PAS president adds that in Islam, those who are known not to possess wealth need not declare it.

Former PM says opposition MPs are not part of the executive and have other sources of income. 

We can hear their concerns in a closed-door discussion rather than in the open, he says. 

The counter will provide the information and procedure needed for asset declaration.

The PAS deputy president referred to the hadith during yesterday's asset declaration debate in the Dewan Rakyat.

In 2015, Tuan Ibrahim had challenged the then premier and his wife to declare their assets.