KUALA LUMPUR – Photographic evidence was presented by PKR’s Rafizi Ramli today allegedly showing Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz’s son using a luxury vehicle registered to Michael Chia, the timber trader the senior Cabinet minister recently defended against corruption claims linked to Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Musa Aman.
In his latest expose, the PKR strategy director alleged that the link between Chia and Nazri raises the question of “conflict of interest” and suspicion over the minister’s apparent haste and determination in dismissing the corruption claims against the businessman and Musa.
“Here you have a high-profile corruption and money-laundering case that not just involves the chief minister.
“And yet the very person who announced the clearance of Musa is the same minister whom we found proof of how he has been receiving direct benefits from Chia.
“He must take moral and political responsibility for this… there is a direct question of corruption here, involving him and his family,” Rafizi told a press conference in Parliament.
Rafizi revealed that a special surveillance team has been tailing and observing the activities of Nazri’s son Nedim “for a long time now” in order to obtain proof that Nedim’s RM500,000 black Hummer WNX 9776 belongs to Chia.
He added that prior to Nazri’s “relentless” defence of Chia and Musa in Parliament, it was already rumoured that the luxury vehicle belonged to Chia.
“We have been waiting for the things that he (Nazri) has said (about Chia and Musa)… If it had not been for his words…,” Rafizi said.
Nazri recently told Parliament that Musa had been cleared of corruption allegations after anti-graft authorities in Malaysia and Hong Kong found that the RM40 million “political donation” that Chia was accused of attempting to smuggle to Malaysia in 2008 was not for Musa’s personal use but for Sabah Umno’s. -By Clara Chooi via TMI
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