With the new expose on the alleged money trail and the different political parties including SUPP in the context of Sarawak reportedly receiving a total of RM 3.5 million, instead of RM 1 million as reported earlier, purportedly misappropriated from 1MDB and SRC International, it is important the party President Dr Sim Kui Hian come clean on the actual amount received and reveal their intentions on whether they will return these illicit funds to the rightful parties or not.
On July 2, the 1MDB special investigative task force announced that more than 400 bank accounts were frozen on suspicion of receiving funds allegedly originating from the state investment fund, amounting to RM1.1 billion, including the accounts of SUPP, which was confirmed beforehand by Dr Sim Kui Hian on 29 June 2018.
At that period of time, they said they would cooperate and comply with any investigation by the authority. RM 3.5 million is not a small amount, and I’m sure they would have been aware of such money that passed their accounts.
SUPP should have come clean when these allegations were made many years ago and state the actual amount received in the first if they really had nothing to hide. Questions also have to be asked if SUPP are still willing to be transparent of the alleged funds channelled into their accounts based on all the investigations and allegations in multiple countries on source of such funds even if Pakatan Harapan did not win in the last elections and allowed such open investigations on 1MDB to happen in our own country.
Thus, I encourage SUPP, that the rightful thing to do, is for them to come clean and also return that money to the rightful parties especially if it involves public funds.