MP SPEAKS | MPs should not recognise Najib's appointment as BNBBC chair

MP SPEAKS | Parliament should not recognise former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak’s appointment as BN Backbenchers Club (BNBBC) chair as it would plunge the Malaysian Parliament into new shame and infamy.

Najib’s appointment is doubly shocking and shameful - proof that public integrity and anti-corruption are furthest from the principles and vision of Umno, MCA and MIC.

What makes the appointment doubly shocking and shameful is that it came three months after the July 28 conviction and sentence of Najib to 12 years jail and fines of RM210 million for corruption, money-laundering and abuse of power charges in connection with the RM42 million SRC-1MDB case, and a week after Goldman Sachs pleaded guilty in the US to violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bars US companies from paying bribes to government officials abroad.

In making an announcement of “historic significance” over the Goldman Sachs case, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) spokesperson referred to Goldman Sachs’ central role in “a massive global scheme to loot billions of dollars” from the government-run 1MDB and the subsequent...