Pakatan Harapan has announced that it will be organising a mega-rally on Oct 14 to raise awareness on misappropriation in state fund 1MDB.

Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua said the rally, named "Love Malaysia, Destroy Kleptocracy", aims to give the public better understanding of the 1MDB issue.

“This will be the biggest rally to explain the 1MDB issue, especially to the rural folks.

“Today is the beginning of the roadshow (on the rally),” he said during a Harapan ceramah at the Ideal Convention Centre (IDCC) in Shah Alam last night.

However, he said the time and venue of the rally will be announced at a later date.

1MDB had previously denied any wrongdoing in the allegations by the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) three civil lawsuits involving the state fund.

In its latest suit filed in California on June 16, the DOJ is seeking to seize US$540 million (RM2.3 billion) worth of assets including artworks, jewellery and the rights to two films, which the department alleged were purchased with stolen funds from 1MDB.

This puts the total assets the DOJ seeks to forfeit at US$1.7 billion (RM7.7 billion).

In the wake of the latest DOJ suit, the opposition had said it was planning to hold the rally in September in response to the suit.

Last year, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Abdul Rahman Dahlan had said in an interview with the BBC that the "Malaysian Official 1" (MO1), which was mentioned multiple times in DOJ’s first suit, is Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.

Najib has consistently denied using public funds and attorney-general Mohamed Apandi Ali had also exonerated him of wrongdoing in this matter in January last year.