Lim Kit Siang today urged MCA president Liow Tiong Lai to stand up on the 1MDB issue, if the MCA president was sincere in his call urging Malaysians to not give up on the country, in his "Citizen" video last August.

The DAP veteran, in a statement, questioned whether Liow would address the financial scandal, including the seizure of superyacht Equanimity, said to be bought by Penang-born Low Taek Jho (Jho Low), using funds allegedly siphoned from 1MDB, during MCA's 69th MCA anniversary celebration this Sunday.

"Would Liow support that Parliament, next month, must address the nation's infamy as a 'global kleptocracy', as MPs, regardless of political party, cannot continue to pretend that the 1MDB scandal does not exist.

"This especially after the recent episodes concerning RM400 million of 1MDB-related funds in Switzerland, the billion-ringgit Equanimity yacht seized by Indonesian authorities yesterday, the RM120 million Bombardier jet seized by Singapore authorities last months, and the RM120 million pink diamond necklace," said the Gelang Patah MP.

Lim also lambasted the "blacking out" of the yacht seizure story in BN/Umno owned newspapers, which he said was proof that the media are "fake papers".

Lim "reminded" Liow that the latter, in his "Citizen" video in August last year, remarked about not giving up on the country, and asked whether he and fellow MCA leaders would walk the talk (by acknowledging the 1MDB issue), or if the advice was just "pure humbug".

The said video depicts Liow in a dual role - one as an angry, disenchanted man with unkempt hair, who complains about the rampant corruption in the country, confronted at his home by "politician" Liow.

The politician Liow is seen telling the angry man that whatever grievances he may have with political parties, at the end of the day, it is the country that mattered. The latter then relents and puts up a Malaysian flag in his home.