GEORGE TOWN, March 19 – Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has lodged a police report over a screenshot posted on social media of what appeared to be a tweet by the CM saying that he is to be arrested by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and interrogated for the Jalan Pinhorn bungalow case.
The police report was made by the state government’s information division communications director, who is also the one tasked with managing Lim’s Twitter account, Yap Lee Ying at the Jalan Patani police station in Georgetown, Penang here at 11.21 this morning.
Lee Ying in a statement said that they found a screenshot posted by Facebook user H’ng Khoon Leng shows a status that says ‘saya akan ditahan dan disoal siasat SPRM ptg ini. Berhubung kes rasuah dlm pembelian rumah mewah di Georgetown, doakan saya’ (I will be detained and interrogated by MACC about the purchase of a luxury house in Georgetown. Pray for me).
In addition, the Facebook user posted the screenshot on the Facebook page with a comment of “Guan Eng or his troopers trying to play the sympathy game…hahaha…I doubt SPRM is so fast, my 2009 SPRM report on the bungalow, still not yet interview me”.
Yap said that as the officer in charge of Lim’s Twitter account, she have been informed of the existence of related images on March 17, 2016 at about 10:49 pm but found that there was no corresponding tweet in the CM’s Twitter. According to her, the report was made to avoid misunderstanding among the public against Guan Eng.
