Nasharudin is the one Rafizi is accusing
Rafizi Ramli said he is going to reveal the PAS leader, or the ex-PAS leader, or the person close to PAS (he keeps changing his story each time) who allegedly received money from 1MDB. Actually that person Rafizi is accusing is Nasharudin Mat Isa, one of the so-called ‘liberals’ in PAS who opposes the RUU355 together with all those others who are now in PAN.
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Nasharudin Mat Isa is one of those so-called ‘liberal’ or ‘moderate’ PAS leaders who oppose the Sharia and/or the Sharia Amendment Bill a.k.a. RUU355. Due to his opposition to what he calls ‘extreme’ Islam (to borrow from what Lim Kit Siang and DAP would say) Nasharudin left PAS in 2013. The other members of Nasharudin’s gang left not long after that to form PAN a.k.a. Amanah, DAP’s Islamic party.
Nasharudin Mat Isa, the person Rafizi is accusing of receiving money from 1MDB
So this is the man who Rafizi is going to finger later this week. Rafizi said he has documentary evidence to prove that Nasharudin did, in fact, receive RM90 million from 1MDB. And the person who gave Rafizi this evidence is Bahri Mohamad Zain, who resigned from the MACC late last year (READ MORE HERE).
Rafizi is acting like this is a new revelation or an exclusive story. Actually this story is seven years old. Furthermore, Saifuddin Abdullah and Saifuddin Nasution had already spoken about this matter before.
Bahri and Rafizi are going to expose Nasharudin this week
This story first cropped up when the two Saifuddin’s met up with Nasharudin, together with the late Haron Din, around 2010 to discuss the possibility of setting up a Unity Government. The idea, however, was shot down by both Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and the PAS President, Abdul Hadi Awang.
They met again in London in 2013 to reactivate the discussion of the Unity Government between Umno and PAS, which would include PKR this time. The PAS President, Abdul Hadi Awang, however, shot the idea down, yet again — which was why the liberals or moderates ganged up against him in the first place. The ironical thing is Hadi thought that a unity government with only Umno, PKR and PAS is a betrayal to DAP and he did not want to betray DAP.
Haron Din, together with Nasharudin, met Saifuddin Nasution (PKR) and Saifuddin Abdullah (Umno) in 2013 to discuss a Unity Government with Umno
What Lim Kit Siang did not realise is that these ‘liberals’ and ‘moderates’ in PAS who he was backing (financially as well) are opposed to Hadi not only because of RUU355 but because Hadi refuses to agree to the Unity Government, which Nasharudin and his gang were trying to set up with Umno. And here was Kit Siang supporting the liberal or moderate group in PAS that was prepared to betray DAP by teaming up with Umno to form an all-Malay-all-Islam government — which would have happened if not because of Hadi.
My only question is why is Rafizi so late? Why reveal Nasharudin’s name only later this week when everyone already knew about this story since before the previous general election. In fact, this story was already ‘hangat’ seven years ago since 2010. Maybe Rafizi knows that the 1MDB issue is already dead so he is trying to give it new life by adding a new dimension to the issue.
