TUN Dr Mahathir Mohamad today pointed out that each time he criticised or exposed his successors’ wrongdoing, their reaction was not to correct or explain themselves.
“Instead, they, along with their supporters, would attack me and threaten to reveal ‘mistakes’ I made when I was the prime minister.
“This has been happening since the time of Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and his fourth-floor boys and Datuk Seri Najib Razak and 1MDB.
“And now we have Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and his lies about reformasi and his fight against corruption,” he said in a statement on X.
The former prime minister said it was not wrong to expose his (Mahathir’s) wrongdoings if there were any.
“I am prepared to explain anything and even be investigated.
“Under the previous administrations, I had come under the scrutiny of royal commissions of inquiry and police investigations.
“My family had also been investigated by the Inland Revenue Board and now by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC),” he said.
Dr Mahathir said government departments were more bent on investigating him instead of looking into what he was exposing about the alleged wrongdoings.
He claimed that this was what happened during Najib’s time with the latter’s 1MDB scandal.
“Najib was cleared of any wrongdoing by the attorney-general he had appointed, and the same goes for the police, the MACC (whose chief commissioner was replaced with one of Najib’s supporters) and other agencies that should be investigating the scandal,” he said.
He claimed the same thing is happening today.
“After I sued Anwar for constantly accusing me of corruption and abuse of power, I had allowed him to reveal the evidence to back his allegations of my wrongdoings for the last 30 years.
“Based on Anwar’s past statements about me, he would already have boxes of documents allegedly containing proof of my wrongdoings.
“Isn’t the court the best place for Anwar to prove his accusations? Unfortunately, to this day, he has no evidence. Rather, he continues to make use of political platforms to boast that he is the best person in combating corruption,” he added. – June 24, 2024
