Guan Eng will reopen five murder cases if he were the PM

Lim Guan Eng admits PM Mahathir and not Attorney-General Tommy Thomas runs the AGC

(Mkini) – Responding to former premier Najib Abdul Razak, DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang said if he is the prime minister, he will reopen investigations into the high-profile deaths of Altantunya Shaariibuu, Kevin Morais, Hussain Najadi, Teoh Beng Hock and customs officer Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed.

“However, I am not the prime minister.

“My stand is clear but it is Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s call as the prime minister of Malaysia to make the relevant decisions,” he added in a statement this afternoon.

Lim also described it as the “height of impertinence” for Najib to challenge him to urge Mahathir to reopen investigations into these deaths.

The Iskandar Puteri MP added that he had no doubts that if a referendum is held, Malaysians would overwhelmingly demand a re-opening of investigations into Altantunya’s murder.“The same applies to other mysterious deaths, whether Kevin Morais, Hussein Najadi or even Teoh Beng Hock,” he added.

According to Lim, the former premier is the “last person” qualified to talk about justice unless the latter is prepared to volunteer to be the first witness of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) re-investigation of the 1MDB scandal.

Lim also challenged Najib to reveal whether he wanted Low Taek Jho – who is widely regarded to be at the centre of the 1MDB scandal – to testify on the 1MDB scandal, and to reveal the number of meetings he had with the businessperson.

“How can Najib babble about ‘justice’ when he perpetrated the 1MDB ‘kleptocracy at its worst’, shamed Malaysia as a global kleptocracy, and aided and abetted the fugitive financier Low in the crime and corruption of the 1MDB scandal?” asked Lim.

Finally, Lim dared Najib to reveal why hasn’t he sued the authors of The Sarawak Report – the Inside Story of the 1MBD Expose and Billion Dollar Whale – the Man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood and the World.

Lim said that in Chapter 37 of former book, the author Clare Rewcastle Brown had alleged that funds for the East Coast Rail Project (ECRL) was partly meant to be laundered to pay off 1MDB’s debts.

At the time the allegation was made, Najib was still prime minister.

Lim also referred to a page in Billion Dollar Whale that accused Najib of winning the 2013 general election “armed with dirty 1MDB cash”.

“Malaysians will really like to know why he is not taking legal action against the authors of the two books on the 1MDB scandal,” said Lim.