Selangor seeks probe on Umno aid to Egypt students
By Yow Hong Chieh, The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, March 13 — The Selangor government has asked the national anti-graft body to probe “indebted” Selangor Umno for giving over RM500,000 to help students affected by the recent Egyptian protests.
The mentri besar’s office questioned how Selangor Umno and Yayasan Kelana Ehsan (YKE) could afford the payout when the party’s Shah Alam division still owed Shah Alam City Council (MBSA) RM236,000.
Selangor Umno and YKE last week handed out RM500 to nearly 1,200 students forced to return from Egypt after popular protests there temporarily disrupted their studies.
“If Selangor Umno really wants to spend half a million (ringgit)… why didn’t it try to clear its debt with MBSA?” said Faekah Husin, political secretary to Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim.
She then urged MACC to look into YKE’s assets and businesses to see how it managed to raise the funds.
Faekah said the graft busters should act on the matter with the same expediency it had exercised when opening files into the Selangor government’s alleged misuse of public funds after receiving complaints from Umno.
