Totally untrue: AG debunks Zahid's tit-for-tat claim over Chin Peng's ashes

Published: Dec 6, 2019 6:43 AM | Updated: Dec 6, 2019 8:23 AM

Attorney-General Tommy Thomas has clarified that he never communicated with Ahmad Zahid Hamidi regarding the former Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) leader Chin Peng's ashes.

“My attention was drawn to an article in which Zahid claimed that I had requested him, when he was home minister, to propose to the Cabinet to allow Chin Peng's ashes to be brought back to Malaysia.

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