Saudi confirmation proves Dr M’s claims false – PM’s aide

KUALA LUMPUR: Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad should be held responsible for the damage he had inflicted on Malaysia’s reputation, said the Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Datuk Seri Tengku Sariffuddin Tengku Ahmad.

“The Western media who allowed themselves to be used to propagate false politicallymotivated allegations should apologise to the Malaysian people,” he said in a statement yesterday.

The statement by Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir that the donation to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak indeed came from Saudi Arabia, proved that the wild allegations pushed for one year by Dr Mahathir and his Anti-Najib Campaign were completely false.

Tengku Sariffuddin said it also confirmed what the Prime Minister had maintained all along, and what multiple lawful authorities concluded after exhaustive investigations that the funds were a donation from Saudi Arabia.

“Tun Mahathir’s lies were motivated by personal interest, not care for Malaysia or the people. It was an attempt to use deception to unseat a democratically-elected government, just to save the political career of Tun Mahathir’s son, Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir.

The Saudi Foreign Minister admitted on Thursday that the donation to Najib indeed came from Saudi Arabia.