The Royal Malaysian Customs Department (JKDM) has confirmed the existence of a RM24 million diamond ring which the prime minister’s wife, Rosmah Mansor, was said to have purchased.

NONE However, in a written reply to Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng in Parliament today, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz clarified that the ring was not sold after it was brought into the country.

“The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has referred the matter to the JKDM and JKDM has confirmed that there was no such purchase of the ring.

“After a few days, the ring was returned to the company which owns it," he said.

In July, former PKR central committee member Badrul Hisham Shaharin had claimed that a ring, ‘Natural Fancy Gray Cushion Cut Diamond’ priced at RM24,458,400 had been flown in via the KL international Airport.

NONE Producing a Customs Department information system printout, he said that the item was purchased through fine jewellery company Jacob & Co based in New York and brought into Malaysia by one Jeremy Beh Sin Tee.

He added that the document showed Rosmah’s name in the receiver’s column of the Customs form, which he claimed to be evidence implicating her in the purchase.

Rosmah has vehemently denied the allegation, which she described as another series of “slanders” against her.

“This is nothing funny, this is slander... what have I not experienced? I have experienced all,” she had said.

Despite the denial, opponents of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak have jumped on this and the issue has often been played up at political ceramah .

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