PUTRAJAYA – Baling MP Datuk Seri Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim has been given the green light to travel abroad as head of the Umno-led Humanitarian Mission 4 Palestine (HM4P) to al-Quds and Gaza, said the Immigration Department’s director-general.
Azeez is scheduled to leave for Jordan tonight.
According to Datuk Khairul Dzaimee Daud, Azeez submitted his application and other documents such as a support letter from the Foreign Ministry as well as a court release letter last week.
He said the application was approved on humanitarian grounds.
“There is no issue of Azeez going abroad as he had submitted his application and the relevant support letter,” he told Bernama today.
The two-week HM4P is organised by Umno’s welfare bureau which is chaired by Azeez, will deliver food and medical aid at the two locations.
Azeez is facing three corruption charges on road projects in Perak and Kedah involving RM5.2 million as well as 10 charges of money laundering involving RM140 million under Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act (MACC).
The media had earlier reported that Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court judge Azura Alwi had allowed Azeez’s application to hold his international passport from June 10 to July 20 2021 for the purpose.
Khairul Dzaimee said the approval to travel in the mission was given on the condition that there should not be more than 10 persons in the delegation apart from being subject to the current standard operating procedures (SOPs).
On May 25, Deputy Foreign Minister Datuk Kamarudin Jaffar said a humanitarian mission for Palestinians planned by renown missionary Ebit Lew was approved for him to travel, subject to the current SOPs. – Bernama, June 18, 2021
