After Al Jazeera interview, Kit Siang challenges Najib to polygraph test
Lim asked whether Najib would lodge reports with the various authorities on “other international figures who are probably involved” in the 1MDB scandal.
(MMO) – Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak should use a lie-detector test when answering questions on 1Malaysia Development Berhad to clear his name, said DAP’s Lim Kit Siang.
The Iskandar Puteri MP said Najib’s “semi aborted” interview with Al Jazeera led to more questions than answers, and asked if Najib would be willing to prove his innocence via a so-called lie detector machine.
“In June 2017, the Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Ali Hamsa said the government is studying the possibility of using the polygraph — lie detector — test as a mechanism to help curb cases of corruption among civil servants.
“Is Najib prepared to take the lie-detector test and answer questions on the 1MDB scandal?” Lim said in a statement today.
He said the first matter the Public Accounts Committee should address is to ask Najib to clarify his cryptic statement in the interview that 1MDB investigators should not stop at Low Taek Jho, but should probe others he claimed were involved in the 1MDB scandal.
“Najib should be asked to explain who are these ‘other international figures who are probably involved’ in the 1MDB scandal; and why he had not launched investigations into them instead of carrying out an international façade and charade claiming that there was never a 1MDB scandal,” he said.
