The ongoing probe against Paris-owned shipbuilder DCNS in the French courts is not a case against the prime minister or the Malaysian government, said Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin.

“The ones who have been summoned are not the Malaysian government or the Malaysian prime minister. They were only mentioned.

khairy jamaluddin at bn youth volunteers 2 “Until today there has been no subpoena summoning them to appear in court,” he told a crowd of volunteers at the BN Youth Volunteers workshop at Putra World Trade Centre this evening.

He was replying to a question from one of the volunteers, who had asked his response to peers who declined to support the government over the ongoing trial.

Khairy ( right ) said the case was not filed against Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, and that the matter had been answered repeatedly in Parliament.

Instead, he blamed the problem on the opposition consistently repeating what he called “recycled” issues.

“If we do our research, (we know) this is a case between a French lawyer and a French company (sic), which involves us but we are not the defendants in the case.

“So many times have we answered in Parliament that no commission was wrongfully paid, that no commission was paid at all to any companies.

“The problem is, the opposition recycles the issue until we ourselves lose the confidence to answer,” he said.

suaram scorpene case fundraising dinner 160612 zunar The Scorpene probe in Paris is being brought by Malaysian NGO Suaram against DCNS.

French prosecution papers for the case has revealed that a French company had paid 36 million euro (RM142 million) to a company linked to Najib's close ally Abdul Razak Baginda, allegedly to acquire confidential navy documents related to the Scorpenes.

Another document allegedly implicates Najib in requesting for US$1 billion for Perimekar, to facilitate a meeting  between DCN's subsidiary DCNI and himself.

During the present Parliament sitting the speaker rejected Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar's emergency motion for Mindef to answer to the allegation on the sale of defence documents.

Getting creative on oil royalty

He added that the government would provide any information required, because “we have nothing to hide”.

Khairy also responded to a question on the Kelantan oil royalty issue, denying that the government had not been fair on the matter.

He argued that the federal government had indeed given part of the oil royalties back to the people of Kelantan, just not through the Kelantan government.

“This is not playing politics, it is just that we don’t trust them (the Kelantan state government).

“What is important is not that the Kelantan state government gets the money, but that the people of Kelantan get the money,” said Khairy.

He also dismissed the idea that the BN government has sidelined opposition-governed states, charging that the federal government has spent more money in states like Selangor and Kelantan than they have collected from those states in taxes.

“So don’t say that the we (the government) do not give them, even if we are the opposition in those states,” he added.