MCA: We don’t put money into personal accounts
(Mkini) – MCA secretary-general Ong Ka Chuan said it has never been conventional practice for political funding to be deposited into the party president’s private bank account and held in trust for the party.
Ong said this is to draw the line between the interests of the party and an individual, and to prevent the money from being used for personal interest.
The international trade and industry minister II said the MCA would be helpless if funds for the party were put into personal use and then the person later denies having the fund.
Ong was rebutting the statement by Umno secretary-general Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor (photo), who defended the controversial RM2.6 billion which went into Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s private bank accounts by emphasising that this “is a common practice”.
Ong is quoted by Oriental Daily as saying: “I don’t take this personally. If the (money goes into) a personal account, it is beyond our control then. If the account holder denies it, what can you do?”
He noted that since MCA’s inception, it has been the convention to channel funds for the party into the party’s account.
It would be difficult to trace the source of the funding if they were held by the leaders, he added.
