PAS Youth chief Nik Abduh Nik Abdul Aziz blaming the past for the corruption today appears to ignore such practices in the current government, said Parti Amanah Negara Youth deputy chief Faiz Fadzli.

“It is as if to cover the billions of in corruption and waste under the current administration led by a global ‘kleptocrat’ Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak,” he said.

Faiz was responding to Nik Abduh who yesterday said Malaysians had to bear with old pains from former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s era.

Faiz pointed out that the current government was embroiled in the 1MDB scandal is also a subject of investigation in the US.

He noted that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) had also revealed 548 civil servants were arrested for graft this year as of February.

This was on top of several other graft cases including the Sabah water scandal, the Johor bumiputera property conversion case and the Youth and Sports Ministry case.

Faiz said Nik Abduh should not turn a blind eye to the corruption happening under the current government.

“His statement appears similar to the prime minister who wants to investigate the forex scandal while ignoring the 1MDB scandal in which he is involved in and disallowing it to even be debated in Parliament,” he said.

Faiz was responding to the government task force to investigate Bank Negara Malaysia’s losses from dabbling in the forex market when Mahathir was prime minister in the 1990s.

He reiterated that the PAS leaders should not appear to defend corruption under the current administration.