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Harapan leaders pan Umno fund to pay Najib's RM50m fine
Two Pakatan Harapan leaders have questioned Umno’s decision to launch a solidarity fund to help former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak pay a RM50 million fine imposed as part of the terms of his conditional pardon.
Amanah Youth executive committee member Fadhli Umar Aminolhuda asked why Umno was mobilising its members and supporters to help pay Najib’s fine, while Johor DAP vice-president Sheikh Omar Ali likened the move to asking villagers to help pay a fine for misusing their money.
In a statement today...
Two Pakatan Harapan leaders have questioned Umno’s decision to launch a solidarity fund to help former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak pay a RM50 million fine imposed as part of the terms of his conditional pardon.
Amanah Youth executive committee member Fadhli Umar Aminolhuda asked why Umno was mobilising its members and supporters to help pay Najib’s fine, while Johor DAP vice-president Sheikh Omar Ali likened the move to asking villagers to help pay a fine for misusing their money.
In a statement today, Fadhli questioned Umno secretary-general Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki’s announcement that the fund had collected RM634,562.02 within three hours of its launch.
“What exactly is Umno trying to show solidarity with?” he asked, pointing out that Najib was convicted of seven charges involving abuse of power, criminal breach of trust, and money laundering linked to RM42 million belonging to SRC International.
Fadhli (below) said that while the public should respect the Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s power and decision in granting Najib a conditional pardon, he stressed that this did not change the fact that his criminal conviction in the SRC case had been decided through the courts.
He told Umno that it should use its ability to mobilise large sums of money to help recover losses suffered by the country from the 1MDB scandal instead, as the fund could create the impression that political parties would rally around influential figures to turn court-imposed punishments into political causes.
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Fadhli ended his statement with a play on Asyraf’s previously used phrase “you touch, you go”, writing: “You steal, we help.”
READ MORE: Najib's conditional pardon only applies to SRC International case - AG
Yesterday, Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar granted Najib a pardon, allowing him to serve the remainder of his jail sentence under house arrest, provided the former Pekan MP pays a RM50 million fine and complies with all conditions.
The former Pekan MP is serving his jail sentence over seven counts of criminal breach of trust, abuse of power, and money laundering involving over RM42 million belonging to SRC International.
He was first convicted on all the charges by the High Court in July 2020 following a lengthy trial, receiving a 12-year imprisonment alongside an RM210 million fine.
READ MORE: Najib gets house arrest - but how he'll be tracked remains unclear
What's the logic?
Separately, Sheikh Omar (below) questioned the logic of asking members of the public to contribute towards paying a fine imposed on someone convicted of misusing their money.
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“‘A’ misuses the villagers’ money, then is punished for taking that money.
“When it is time for ‘A’ to pay the fine, the villagers are asked to contribute to pay it,” he said in a statement yesterday.
Najib began serving his jail term on Aug 23, 2022, after both the Court of Appeal and Federal Court dismissed his appeals and upheld his conviction.
However, on Jan 29, 2024, the Pardons Board halved his 12-year prison sentence to six years and reduced the RM210 million fine to RM50 million.
READ MORE: Analysts: Neither Harapan nor BN gets 'complete victory' from Najib's conditional pardon
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“What exactly is Umno trying to show solidarity with?” he asked, pointing..." Solidarity for corruption! These leaders are recalcitrant. They never learned their lessons. "Repent" is the key word for those who do wrong
The conditional release of Najib from prison to serve house-arrest has thrown up numerous issues for PH, Umno and the Rakyat. The Rakyat should respect the Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s power and decision in granting Najib a conditional pardon, but this does not change the fact that his criminal conviction in the SRC case had been decided through the courts. His 2nd conditional pardon is only for his SRC case where he misused RM42 millions of the Rakyat's money. He has so many other cases to fight still. The conviction and sentence of 15 years and a RM11.36billion fine for his "greater than Attila" 1Mdb case are waiting for him. The Madani gomen and PH should take this opportunity to clearly and widely explained to the Rakyat jelata what this criminal has done and the hardship he has caused the Rakyat for now and in many generations to come. PH Presedential Council should also explain clearly to the Rakyat its stand that no one is above the law especially in cases of grand theft of the nation's funds. Umno should also be given a chance to explain what it is clamouring for Najib's pardon and even release and why it is collecting funds to help pay the RM50million fine. Should the Rakyat help pay for the one who stole the Rakyat's funds? Should the Rakyat fund the arsonist to repair your burnt down house? Bersih and other NGOs should be help the gomen in this effort to bring the Rakyat up to speed with what Najib really has done to the nation and not just like Umno, mention the good he apparently has brought the nation. That would be another issue to be discussed at large. Which gomen or gomen leader are expected to do bad for the nation?
Mosquito party Umno should be terrified now. They have now awakened a giant in the rakyat, and they are now more likely to wiped out in the next GE than ever before…potentially even more so than the GE super-tsunami of 2018.
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