Azmin: Why 17 years later?

The PKR deputy president wants to know why the authorities sat on his case for 17 years?

(FMT) – PKR deputy president Azmin Ali has asked why it took the authorities 17 years to pursue a corruption case against him.

“Why didn’t they do it during 1995, ’96, ’97? It’s been 17 years since 1998.”

“Whatever action that needed to be taken… should have been done 17 years ago. Why was this matter raised last week. Even the IO (investigating officer) has passed away,” he told reporters here.

He was referring to the decision by the MACC review panel to recommend that the case against Azmin be re-opened based on new information revealed by blogger Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin.

According to Raja Petra’s documents, Azmin was supposedly involved in corruption while he served as Anwar Ibrahim’s (then deputy prime minister) political aide in 1995.

This included the allegation that Azmin was paid a monthly stipend of RM15,000 by Berjaya Group tycoon Vincent Tan, and paper trails seemingly showing him and his wife owning millions of Ringgit in shares, houses and cars.

This was despite Azmin earning less than RM3,000 a month at the time.