Despite the vast sum involved, Saudi Arabia’s finance and foreign affairs ministries are in the dark about the supposed donation from the Saudi royal family to Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.
According to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) today, the two ministries have declined to comment on attorney-general Mohd Apandi Ali's statement yesterday, but said they have no information about such a donation, which would have been unprecedented.
“A Saudi government official, while declining to comment specifically on the prosecutor’s statement, said the Saudi ministries of foreign affairs and finance had no information about such a gift and that a royal donation to the personal bank account of a foreign leader would be unprecedented.
“Representatives of the royal family couldn’t be reached for comment,” the WSJ report says.
Yesterday, Apandi cleared Najib of corruption, basing his decision on the investigation by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).
Among others, Apandi said Najib's RM2.6 billion donation in 2013 came from the Saudi royal family, and of this sum, RM2.03 billion was not used and had been returned.
The timing of the donation was just ahead of the 13th general election, and was during the reign of the late Saudi King Abdullah.
'International investigators don't believe'
However, WSJ in ints report said some international investigators don't believe this to be the case.
“The US Federal Bureau of Investigation and other government agencies from outside Malaysia continue to investigate the transfer.
“Some international investigators don’t believe the nearly $700 million came from Saudi Arabia, according to a person familiar with the inquiries,” the report says.
The report also quoted a former political analyst at the Saudi Embassy in Washington as saying that the idea that the Saudi royalty would donate the vast sum to a personal bank account, instead of a government institution, is 'suspect'.
“The notion that the Saudi ‘royals’ would ‘donate’ hundreds of millions of dollars to a foreign leader, as opposed to a government institution, struck me as suspect, to say the least,” the analyst, Fahad Nazer, is reported as saying. --Mkini
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