Bar calls for ‘RM2.6 billion’ EGM
Lawyers look to discuss effects of PM’s receipt of funds in a bid to prevent ‘perversion of the administration of justice.’
(Free Malaysia Today) – The Bar Council will convene an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Malaysian Bar on September 12 to discuss various current issues, to affirm and uphold the rule of law and to prevent the administration of justice in the country from being perverted.
The announcement was made to members of the Bar via an e-mail from its secretary Karen Cheah issued yesterday.
The e-mail said that the Bar Council had taken the decision to call the EGM at a special meeting held on August 21.
Up for discussion during the EGM will be issues pertaining to “ongoing investigation into the flow of funds from SRC international Sdn Bhd (a former subsidiary of 1MDB), and the transfer of RM2.6 billion into the Prime Minister’s private bank accounts.”
Members were told that a proper notification of the meeting and a full agenda will be issued “soon”.
It is believed that the Bar Council is in the midst of forming resolutions which it will seek to have passed at the EGM, with several issues surrounding unfolding events in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) saga bound to take centre stage.
Chief among them is bound to be the receipt of RM2.6 billion in Prime Minister Najib Razak’s private banking accounts and the ensuing events which have catapulted the matter into a full-blown legal and political crisis.
This includes the refusal or failure on the part of the Prime Minister to properly account for the funds, which are said to have come from two sources – a substantial political ‘donation’ by an unknown Middle-Eastern ‘donor’ and an additional payment of RM42 million apparently by SRC International which to date has not been explained.
The receipt of these funds first came to light when the Wall Street Journal ran an expose on July 2, triggering of a political crisis which has led to, among other things:
