Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak
Source: Global Research
On Wednesday last week the Malaysia’s attorney general confirmed that Saudi Arabia’s royal family gave Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak a $681 million personal gift. The confirmation of the scandal ended months of speculation about the source of the huge personal donation received from ‘a middle eastern donor’ by the Prime Minister. The country’s top anti-graft agency had recommended Najib Razak be charged with criminal misappropriation.
The transfer of almost $700 million was made ahead of the 2013 re-election of the Prime Minister.
Prime Minister Najib Razak who had been in office since 2009 is widely known for his clamp down on Shia minority Islam in the nation.
Salman KIng of Saudi Arabia
In 2010 the nation declared that Shiites in the country, who have been termed a “deviant” sect, were barred from promoting their faith to other Muslims.
In December that year, 200 Shi‘a were arrested by the Selangor Islamic Religious Department for celebrating ashura under the Selangor state shari‘a criminal enactment law. Religious authorities who accused them of “threatening national security” in multicultural Malaysia.
The nation has since continued to persecute and arrest Shia citizens.
In 2014 in Perak another 114 were arrested during a Shia event.
Images filled global media of Shia Muslim, children and women laying sprawled in prisons in the nation.
Countries In Contest To Persecute Shia Muslims For Saudi Dollars
The Saudi Royal family is known for sponsoring administrations and fanatic clerics that support its political campaign against Shia faithfuls in their countries. Its massive financial backing of the Malaysian Prime Minister is one such example of how billions of petrodollars from the nation’s oil sales are used to back radical fanatic administrators and politicians across the world.
Following a recent deadly crackdown by the Nigerian army that saw as many as 1000 Shia minority Muslims killed in Nigeria, the Saudi government immediately voiced public support of the massacre, elucidating similar fears of similar financial support towards the state and Federal administrators.
Categories: Asia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, The Muslim Times
Quoting Guardian
Malaysia’s attorney general said on Tuesday that $681m transferred into prime minister Najib Razak’s personal bank account was a gift from the royal family in Saudi Arabia, and there were no criminal offences or corruption involved.
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The involvement of the Saudi royal family is an unexpected twist in a scandal over the mysterious funds transfer and the troubles of indebted state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), whose advisory board Najib chairs.
“I am satisfied with the findings that the funds were not a form of graft or bribery,” attorney general Mohamed Apandi Ali told a hastily called news conference, where a statement was issued that said Najib had returned $620m to the Saudi royal family because it had not been utilised.
“There was no reason given as to why the donation was made to PM Najib – that is between him and the Saudi family,” Apandi said.
He said no criminal offence was committed by Najib in relation to three investigations submitted by Malaysia’s anti-graft agency and that no further action would be taken.
The Malaysian anti-corruption commission (MACC) had earlier said the funds were a political donation from an unidentified Middle Eastern benefactor.
The attorney general said in a statement he would return to the MACC papers pertaining to the three separate investigations with instructions to close all three cases.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/26/malaysian-pm-najib-razak-cleared-corruption-gift-saudi-royals
Saudi Arabia has not donated a single dollar for the good work that we do in the Muslim Times. More than half a billion dollar to the leader of Malaysia as a gift, when poor people are dying of starvation, seems fishy to me, to say the least.
Saudi Royal Family Gave $681M to Malaysian PM Who Banned Shia Islam
Saying) ‘If you do good, you will do it for your own benefit, and if you do evil, it will be against yourselves’. QS 17:7.
The fruit of century hate teaching is coming to the fruition, as we see now in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Afghanistan etc.
So, the result of hate teaching, millions innocent people are suffering and killed in Syria,Iraq, Yemen, Libya Afghanistan etc. I am very sad, pity, heartbreaking and embarrassing.
Was Salam
The same thing will be happening in the case of the suppression of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community – here and there.
Yes I agree, just a matter of time. Allah’s promise never fail.
Well said brother Rafiq.
Religion is between man and God and in our secular life, let us focus on our human rights and give it to others. That is the recipe for love and peace and to get religion out of politics; as that only gives mankind a bastardized form of religion, where we find royal family of Saudi Arabia as champions of Islam at the expense of millions of other Muslims in Syria, Iraq and else where.
In USA we find the gambling Mogul Donald Trump in bed with all the zealot Christians vying for political power. When the zealots are chasing power they put aside piety or integrity of the leaders and human rights of the minority aside.
God does not like those, who are not the peace makers or merciful, but, this principle is lost when religious parties are seeking political power.
I agree 100 percent that if religious parties are seeking political power will be dangerous, They will discriminate against religious minorities just like; Saudi Arabia, Iran and Islamic states.
Hopefully Christians in United States will not do it.
Was Salam