DAP's Sungai Pinang state assemblyperson Lim Siew Khim today gave a candid explanation on the graft controversy involving her father, conceding that the man had a history of "creating trouble".

She also reiterated that she had no knowledge that her father, Lim Keat Seong, had been collecting money purportedly on grounds that those who paid would be able to secure low-cost housing units.

Siew Khim made the explanation in a Mandarin video recording by China Press when a DAP delegation visited the newspaper's headquarters in Penang today.

During the visit, Siew Khim was asked to respond to a second video claiming that she knew about her father's activities.

The video produced call and message records of Siew Khim complaining about her father.

Siew Khim confirmed she received the call, which she said was from a Parti Cinta Malaysia (PCM) leader, more than a year ago.

"He called me... he said he knows about my family and complained that my father was creating trouble outside," she said.

After a long pause, an exasperated Siew Khim continued: "Honestly speaking... I'd rather not say, but... My father has been creating trouble ever since I was a child, and all throughout my years growing up until I am an adult...

"It's become like eating rice and drinking water to me," she said.

Siew Khim indicated that at that time, she did not take the allegations made against her father seriously as it came from a rival party member.

She became embroiled in controversy after the first video was released showing negotiations between her father and victims who were demanding that their money be returned.

Immediately after the first video was highlighted by Penang Gerakan, Siew Khim had said that neither her father nor herself had the power to influence the selling of low-cost housing by the state.

In her explanation today, Siew Khim also admitted that her adopted brother Ong Hock Hin, who is a cousin by blood, was at the negotiations recorded in the first video.

She added that her brother knew about her father's "trouble-making" issues but wished he had told her he was collecting such money earlier.

"It's obvious this is a conspiracy to get at me. If you really want justice for those people (who were cheated), bring them to the police station and make a report, go make my father..." she said without finishing her sentence.

"What can I do? What do you want me to do?" she added.

Siew Khim's father was yesterday arrested by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and remanded for a week.

The state assemblyperson was also questioned by the MACC, but as a witness and not a suspect.