KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 – 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) Saturday hit out at DAP national publicity secretary Tony Pua over his insistence that the company deny allegations by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). It said in a statement responding to one by Tony Pua earlier on Saturday that Tony Pua “has conveniently forgotten” to mention the denials by 1MDB issued on Sept 9 and 18.
It is clear from the detailed explanations provided by 1MDB as below:
- despite the spurious and unproven allegations raised by the WSJ in its first article dated 9 September 2015, further to the USD1.4 billion deposit from 1MDB in 2012, IPIC (International Petroleum Investment Company) was and remains, the guarantor of two 1MDB bonds totalling USD3.5 billion.
- despite the malicious and wrong second WSJ article on 18 September 2015, upon payment of the “nearly USD1 billion” deposit by 1MDB, the options over the energy assets have indeed been terminated.”
“The facts above speak for themselves” and that the information was publicly available. It wondered why Tony Pua was not at all bothered by a second admission by WSJ in as many weeks that it has reviewed documents that are part of the ongoing Public Accounts Committee (PAC) investigation,” said 1MDB.
In the same time, 1MDB said Tony Pua should focus on the answering of the ongoing police investigations and answering the people on this matter which it felt had “disgraced the PAC process” which the it had pointing out that this was a breach of Malaysian law.
