Selangor Menteri Besar Azmin Ali today sniped at BN strategic communications director Abdul Rahman Dahlan for likening a controversial new state investment company to the prime minister's RM2.6 billion scandal.

Azmin had come under criticism for setting up the Darul Ehsan Investment Group (DEIG) to manage the state's over RM30 billion assets for bypassing the state assembly's oversight and potential lack of transparency.

"(Prime Minister Najib Razak's) RM2.6 billion was a donation, this (DEIG) will be an investment.

"If you can't understand, then don't ask me, ask Abdul Rahman Dahlan," Azmin told journalists in Shah Alam today.

Azmin was referring to Najib's insistence that the RM2.6 billion deposited into his personal bank accounts before the 13th general election were political donations.

Yesterday, Abdul Rahman took a dig at Azmin saying that the over RM30 billion that DEIG will handle far surpasses the RM2.6 billion issue plaguing the prime minister.

"When it comes to RM2.6 billion, the response was as if the world was going to end, but what about the RM30 billion?

"We have yet to see satisfactory answers in the Selangor state assembly, to questions from not only BN but also Pakatan Rakyat (assemblypersons)," he said.

DEIG has come under heated debate as it is an additional state investment arm that some complain will not report to the state assembly as it is registered as a private company.