Don’t pretend 1MDB money didn’t help Umno win GE13, ex-minister tells Cabinet
(The Malaysian Insider) – The Cabinet, especially its Umno ministers, should not plead ignorance about the use of money from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) in financing the 2013 general election, former minister Datuk Zaid Ibrahim said.
Zaid said these ministers should resign as well, in addition to Datuk Seri Najib Razak, over the troubled state investor which opposition lawmakers have accused of being a slush fund for the prime minister.
“They cannot feign surprise that Najib had so much cash, not when they gleefully accept his largesse from time to time without asking any questions.
“They have kissed his hands and failed to express any unhappiness with his generosity,” wrote Zaid, who was a minister in the administration of Najib’s predecessor, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
“There were no cries about wanting to find out where this money came from. But suddenly, they want him removed because he was ‘caught’ – not for any other reason,” Zaid said in a post on his blog.
